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The requirements for admission to medical school (including osteopathy,
podiatry, and veterinary medicine) and the courses which are
prerequisites for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) are more or
less the same. The MCAT is based upon a core of work in the sciences
which should be completed before attempting the test. Consult the Health Professions web site located at http://people.cornellcollege.edu/bchristie-pope/HealthProf/HealthProfindex.htm, or consult the pre-med advisor Barbara Christie-Pope for further information.
At Cornell the essential minimum preparation consists of the following
courses:
BIO 141 and 142 (Foundations: Cellular Biology and Foundations: Organismal Biology),
205 (Cell and Molecular Biology);
CHE 121 and 122 (Chemical Principles I and II) or
161 (Accelerated General Chemistry),
225, 326, and 327 (Organic Chemistry I, II, and Laboratory);
MAT 119-120 or 121 (Calculus of a Single Variable); and either
PHY 101, 102, and 114 (Introductory Physics I, II, and Laboratory) or
111, 112, and 114 (General Physics I, II, and Laboratory).
Other relevant courses are
BIO 312 (Vertebrate Zoology),
313 (Developmental Biology),
315 (Genetics), and
326 (Microbiology).
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