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ciel999

Who would you rather want in medical school?  

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  1. 1. Who would you rather want in medical school?

    • A Kinesiology major with a 95% average
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    • A Microbiology & Immunology student with an 85% average
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David, you have a very high ego. Get over yourself.

 

I don't hate anyone. I just hate the system.....yeah, the admission committee with its rules.

 

Get overmyself? I have a huge ego? Ciel... I thought... you were my friend?!

Anyways, stop *****ing... and man up. If you hate the system so much... why not go complain to Ziola...

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That's very unlikely. It's more like this: a person who gets a 95% average in Kinesiology would very likely get a 60% average if s/he transferred to Microbiology & Immunology.

 

Calm yourself... and stop hating. If thats the case... then the kin/psy/music students in medicine must've failed BMSC 224/230, Chem, Phys, etc? Am I right?

 

If you really want to argue for something... stop hating... and argue for more 'compulsory' pre-reqs for every individual applying to medicine...

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Well.. I have a few thoughts about this poll of my own.

 

I have a B.sc in Microbiology & Immunology

 

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By the end of next year I will have a B.sc Honours in Kin.

 

I would say with 100% certainty Kin is MORE relevant to Medicine subject-wise.

Micro obviously had a few important topics that will carry into medicine ( medical micro, immunology, understanding of microbes) but on a whole I would say Kin will help better prepare for the SUBJECTS of medicine (exercise physiology, anatomy, exercise training, human movement theory, biomechanics, working & communicating with people, health promotion)

 

 

On the other hand.. The Micro student will be much better prepared for WORKLOAD.

 

Overall though I say Kin wins :D

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Well.. I have a few thoughts about this poll of my own.

 

I have a B.sc in Microbiology & Immunology

 

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By the end of next year I will have a B.sc Honours in Kin.

 

I would say with 100% certainty Kin is MORE relevant to Medicine subject-wise.

Micro obviously had a few important topics that will carry into medicine ( medical micro, immunology, understanding of microbes) but on a whole I would say Kin will help better prepare for the SUBJECTS of medicine (exercise physiology, anatomy, exercise training, human movement theory, biomechanics, working & communicating with people, health promotion)

 

 

On the other hand.. The Micro student will be much better prepared for WORKLOAD.

 

Overall though I say Kin wins :D

 

So you agree that Kin is easier in terms of workload and GPA?

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So you agree that Kin is easier in terms of workload and GPA?

 

Yes. But it is also more interesting, rewarding & relevant to medicine.

 

In my opinion instead of looking at marks, admissions should look at your marks as compared to the class average also maybe factoring in how many students were in the class. I feel would even the playing field among all degrees.

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Yes. But it is also more interesting, rewarding & relevant to medicine.

 

In my opinion instead of looking at marks, admissions should look at your marks as compared to the class average also maybe factoring in how many students were in the class. I feel would even the playing field among all degrees.

 

I thought so. Why put yourself under huge stress in the biomedical sciences when you can actually slack off a little bit and do Kin?

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That's very unlikely. It's more like this: a person who gets a 95% average in Kinesiology would very likely get a 60% average if s/he transferred to Microbiology & Immunology.

 

that is not true. If they have 95% in kinesiology, they have a good work ethic. Moreover you can't judge a person's intelligence based on the degree or major. They might have chosen it because they find it interesting rather than easy.

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I thought so. Why put yourself under huge stress in the biomedical sciences when you can actually slack off a little bit and do Kin?

 

I think you are exaggerating the degree differences. Plus the kinesiology students I know are doing quite fine in medical school. Often have a leg up on some areas.

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I thought so. Why put yourself under huge stress in the biomedical sciences when you can actually slack off a little bit and do Kin?

 

Yes plus a better job outlook with just a B.Sc in Kin vs any BMSC degree in my opinion.

 

ALSO: I do disagree with the 95 - 85 conversion.

I would say only about a 5% difference for equal amounts of work

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Yes plus a better job outlook with just a B.Sc in Kin vs any BMSC degree in my opinion.

 

ALSO: I do disagree with the 95 - 85 conversion.

I would say only about a 5% difference for equal amounts of work

 

So? 5% still makes a huge difference as to whether one gets accepted into med school or not.

 

If you had known before, would you have done MCIM anyway? Or would you have gone straight into Kin out of high school? Just curious.

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Yes plus a better job outlook with just a B.Sc in Kin vs any BMSC degree in my opinion.

 

Why would there be a better job outlook for Kin graduates? They're likely to get a job as a personal trainer or coach, if they're lucky. I think you can get a lot farther with a BMSC Master's/P.hd. degree.

 

If you're talking about marks, then it makes much more sense as to why there would be a better job outlook for a graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Kin: better marks in Kin lead to higher chances of getting into a professional college like Med, Dentistry, Pharmacy, etc. That's where the jobs are.

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technically, i could have applied to grad with physical sciences/psych double major, psych major, chem minor, psych major, bio minor, specialization psych, bio major/psych major, specialization psych, and a couple course in arts and fine arts and anything with psych as the head would fit into a ba... so yeah... i'd take me, because i honestly do have a bias towards people who aren't willing or able to see the benefits about how multi-modal knowledge is of far greater benefit in terms of synthesizing concepts, seing patterns, while being able to look up minutia in biochem you'd look up, unless it involved the cns, which of course means i'd have it memorized (lol, im jk)

 

attentionwhore/10

 

Though i cant believe the poll results. Are we all just trolling the poll now for $hits and giggles? Thinking that transfering to Kin improves marks on average by 10%+ at the 90s level is just ridiculous. Brb 110%.

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So? 5% still makes a huge difference as to whether one gets accepted into med school or not.

 

If you had known before, would you have done MCIM anyway? Or would you have gone straight into Kin out of high school? Just curious.

 

If I had known before I would have gone into anything I was interested in but I would have tried as much as I do now in Kin instead of slacking off for the first 3 years of university. If I would have done that I would be in med school by now no matter which degree I chose.

 

Yes, I would have gone into Kin straight out of high school because I love the fields kin covers as long as I also was able to tell myself to work hard because if I did not work hard I would have had very low marks even in kin.

 

There is more to kin other then being a coach and personal trainer. The job outlook is better because out of anyone I graduated with in micro, maybe only 2 people got jobs with just that degree and they were low paying, tedious lab jobs. Some went onto professional colleges or masters but they are still in school now. The people I know that graduated Kin degrees are able to get alot better jobs.

 

More Kin Jobs:

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/scce/students/career-info-by-discipline/121-kinesiology

 

Ciel, I really feel you are resenting your degree choices. Think back to the reasons you chose to go into whatever degree you wanted and use that as motivation to study harder and get into medical school. A large part of what I notice you do on this forum is ***** and complain about how kin and other degrees are so easy. If you really feel that way, switch in! It is never too late :D No matter what degree you are in you still have to work hard and be interested in the subject to truly succeed.

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If I had known before I would have gone into anything I was interested in but I would have tried as much as I do now in Kin instead of slacking off for the first 3 years of university. If I would have done that I would be in med school by now no matter which degree I chose.

 

Yes, I would have gone into Kin straight out of high school because I love the fields kin covers as long as I also was able to tell myself to work hard because if I did not work hard I would have had very low marks even in kin.

 

There is more to kin other then being a coach and personal trainer. The job outlook is better because out of anyone I graduated with in micro, maybe only 2 people got jobs with just that degree and they were low paying, tedious lab jobs. Some went onto professional colleges or masters but they are still in school now. The people I know that graduated Kin degrees are able to get alot better jobs.

 

More Kin Jobs:

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/scce/students/career-info-by-discipline/121-kinesiology

 

Ciel, I really feel you are resenting your degree choices. Think back to the reasons you chose to go into whatever degree you wanted and use that as motivation to study harder and get into medical school. A large part of what I notice you do on this forum is ***** and complain about how kin and other degrees are so easy. If you really feel that way, switch in! It is never too late :D No matter what degree you are in you still have to work hard and be interested in the subject to truly succeed.

 

hmmm... the article doesn't list "Physician" as a job... could possibly imply something... cant put my finger to it...

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hmmm... the article doesn't list "Physician" as a job... could possibly imply something... cant put my finger to it...

 

My guess is that you may need a medical degree to be a physician and that a B.Sc does not qualify one for that position but hmmm if you know something we don't please elaborate David :)

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Also, I don't know about Saskatchewan, but in Ontario, "kinesiologist" is now a licensed profession. So those with kinesiology or human kinetics degrees are the only ones eligible to be licensed in that profession.

 

Some more kin careers:

http://www.uoguelph.ca/hhns/undergrad/HKcareers.shtml

 

(notice that physician is there!)

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