switch nursing to medicine?

Snapper is right, nursing and medicine are 2 very different things. The doctor diagnoses and treats the patient's condition. While the nurse cares for the patient. All schools have different standards for grading, so just because you do good in one school does not guarantee you will do good in another. As a matter of fact I know a girl who went to an Ivy League school for medicine and made straight A's but changed her major to nursing and can barely keep her grades up at the community college. Your best bet to see if you can hack it would be to change your major to pre-med and start taking pre-med courses. Organic chemistry would be a good start, it's the class pre-med and pre-pharmacy uses to weed out the people that don't belong. Sorta like nursing uses A&P to weed people out. Also take the MCAT and see how you do on it, it's the sort of like an unofficial entrance exam for med schools. Well I guess you could actually call it "official" since no med school in the country is going to let you in without having taken it lol!

I hope you have a lot of money for schooling or can get grants, for medicine is WAY more in cost. If money is not a concern, then if you are in college now , you have to switch to pre- med courses as soon as possible. You must get your Bachelor's (4 years), then apply to med school (another 4 years) and pray you get accepted for many good pre med students do not get in. It also will depend on your testing scores, schooling, plus other tests, and interviews, and you can handle seeing blood from auto accidents, lacerations, surgery,and deaths, as well as comforting the mother of a 7 year old child who died after being hit by a drunk while she was just out on her bike...if you can handle all THIS. Still, it is not easy to get accepted...but if your scores are good, and you are willing to work hard, often being on call for 24 hrs ( or at times 48 hrs), if after that, you STILL want it, GO for it, honey.If you still "care", which you MUST...we can sure use you. Good luck, in whatever field you choose.

medicine and nursing are two different things- it's not a matter of who is "smarter". nursing is very hands on and requires good interpersonal skills to succeed. Physicians with a good bedside manner will end up with devoted patients, but we probably all know a few doctors who are jerks- but good clinicians.

have you thought of becoming a CRNA? getting into school is very competetive- and like medicine- get ready for LOTS of chemistry- but they are well paid and have good hours.

good luck and take care!