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Is Chemistry needed for entry into medicine?

  • 30-01-2009 6:37pm
    #1
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭


    Can someone allay my fears or damn me with the truth.I have looked at the medicine section of the UCD prospectus dozens of time and only noticed the one laboratory subject needed and thought to myself i'm grand with biology.I can't believe i have never spotted it before.Analytical skills aside can someone tell me post-haste is chemistry a requirement for undergrad medicine?It says it is for the 5year coarse.What is the 6th year coarse?

    I can't believe how incredibly stupid I am by not spotting this before:(:(


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think you need chemistry.It will be more use to you than leaving cert biology.


  • #3
    sillymoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭sillymoo


    Hey, dont be going off getting all worried just yet. With one science subject you will be able to go into the 6 year programmes in UCD, NUIG and RCSI. I will attach the entry requirements for medicine for you to see. :)


  • #4
    Redpunto
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    not sure if you need chem or not but i did a science degree with just biology - no chem or physics and i found it incredibly tough as i did nt have the basics. A lot of the courses I did were also done by the med students.


  • #5
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    sillymoo wrote: »
    Hey, dont be going off getting all worried just yet. With one science subject you will be able to go into the 6 year programmes in UCD, NUIG and RCSI. I will attach the entry requirements for medicine for you to see. :)

    Thank you!Another question.If I get the required L.C points this year is there any contingency plan to prevent me from applying for it next year on the c.a.o with the hpat.None of my friends see logic in what I'm doing but I'm not doing the hpat this year.I want to focus solely on the act of achieving the required points first and foremost.The only way i have a modicum of chance to get the points is by approaching it with total single mindedness.


  • #6
    sillymoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭sillymoo


    This im afraid i dont know :-) there was none of this hpat business when i was doing the leaving. However they do have a thread on the hpat in the leaving cert forum and maybe they might be able to help?


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  • #7
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    Remmy wrote: »
    Thank you!Another question.If I get the required L.C points this year is there any contingency plan to prevent me from applying for it next year on the c.a.o with the hpat.None of my friends see logic in what I'm doing but I'm not doing the hpat this year.I want to focus solely on the act of achieving the required points first and foremost.The only way i have a modicum of chance to get the points is by approaching it with total single mindedness.

    You need to achieve the points requirement and the subjects requirement in the same sitting. But with the HPAT, the only requirment is that you have completed it within the 2-year period preceeding your college admission (source pg.2) - so in your case there should not be anything stopping you.


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