do you need to take a test for business major like doctors take MCATS?
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The GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)\n\nhe Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) is a standardized assessment—delivered in English—that helps business schools assess the qualifications of applicants for advanced study in business and management. Schools use the test as one predictor of academic performance in an MBA program or in other graduate management programs.\nWhat the GMAT® Measures\n\nThe GMAT® exam measures basic verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing skills that you have developed over a long period of time in your education and work. It does NOT measure:\n\n    * your knowledge of business,\n    * your job skills,\n    * specific content in your undergraduate or first university course work,\n    * your abilities in any other specific subject area, or\n    * subjective qualities—such as motivation, creativity, and interpersonal skills.\n\nFormat and Timing\n\nThe GMAT® exam consists of three main parts, the Analytical Writing Assessment, the Quantitative section, and the Verbal section. \nAnalytical Writing Assessment\n\nThe GMAT® exam begins with the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA). The AWA consists of two separate writing tasks—Analysis of an Issue and Analysis of an Argument. You are allowed 30 minutes to complete each one. \nQuantitative Section\n\nFollowing an optional ten-minute break, you begin the Quantitative Section of the GMAT® exam. This section contains 37 multiple-choice questions of two question types—Data Sufficiency and Problem Solving. You will be allowed a maximum of 75 minutes to complete the entire section.\nVerbal Section\n\nAfter a second optional ten-minute break, you begin the Verbal Section of the GMAT® exam. This section contains 41 multiple choice questions of three question types—Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning, and Sentence Correction. You are allowed a maximum of 75 minutes to complete the entire section.
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Yes.  You need to do 4 years of college. You can major in anything but need to fulfill basic core requirements: 1 year organic chemistry, 1 year general chemistry, 1 year physics, 1 year biology, 1 year math, 1 year english.  some schools also require biochemistry and genetics.  You also need to take the MCAT test and usually it's advisable to get a 30 or better on that.  Supplement all of the schoolwork with lots of quality volunteer work, patient contact, and throw in some research and a publication or two and you're on your way. Some schools offer programs where you go straight from high school into a pre-med curriculum, finish that in 3 years and move straight into the school's medical school.  But the more traditional route is the one mentioned first.
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Yes, virtually all the accredited MBA programs in the U.S. will require the GMAT examination.  A small few may accept the GRE instead, and an even smaller number may consider you without any entrance exam, but I think it would be highly unlikely that you will find any quality program that will give full consideration unless you take the GMAT.\n\nTake the GMAT!
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Yes. You could consider going to law school, business school or even medical school, in addition to grad school in history or other humanities and social sciences. In fact, according to US News and World Report 2004 or 2005 college rankings, history majors have a higher acceptance rate into med school than biology majors.
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I think you need to have taken all the pre-reqs for Med School. Such as Organic chemistry, Biology, etc. The degree really doesn't matter as long as you have the pre-reqs. And the MCAT score is really important.
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The basic steps include: college, medical school, and residency training in general surgery, followed by additional training in cardiothoracic surgery. First, college. During the undergraduate years, a student can major in any field of study as long as he/she takes the necessary prerequisite courses for admission to medical school. These courses include one year each of general biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, and calculus. Most medical schools also require the medical college admissions test (MCAT), which is commonly taken in the spring of the student’s junior year. Many students take a MCAT preparatory course for several months preceding the examination. Typically medical school consists of two years of study in the basic sciences and introduction to clinical medicine, followed by one year of exposure to all of the major clinical disciplines. The final year consists of additional clinical exposure and electives. \n\ngo here to find out more\n\nhttp://www.sts.org/sections/education/beasurgeon/
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The teaching in medical school is hardly "basic" as your comment stated. Medicine is such a vast field that it is impossible to teach medical students everything they need to know. That's why they have to do residency for more training in their specialty be it pediatrics or surgery. The business side of medicine is learned through experience and talking to mentors, associates, & colleagues. Knowing which test to order & what medicine to prescibe is an integral part of their training. However, physicians are often second guessed by patients who often want more (expensive) testing or drugs that they do not need. If I only have a dollar for everytime a patient has told me "my (place relative or acquaintance here) had the exact same thing, and it turned out that he/she had (place extremely rare condition here)..."
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Jordan, Please be very, very careful with this. You really can't get a true MBA degree totally online. If you go to the websites for universities offering 100% online business degrees, you'll notice that they offer a "Master's Certificate." This is not an MBA and will not lead to professional certification.\n\n"Real" Schools of Business offering true MBAs will have many courses online, but will also require a certain portion of the degree to be earned through face-2-face classes. Believe it or not, accreditation for business schools is very tough and demanding; thus the standards are rather high. There are a lot of "diploma mills" out there -- be careful.\n\nAlso, to answer another question you had... Yes, even though you're an MD you still have to take the GMAT. You may know about gastroenterology; but they need to find out if you know anything about "Flux Vertical Integration" and "Debenture Analysis."\n\nThe tests are not pass/fail. You will get a score rather like your MCATs. And yes, most of the prep materials you can buy commercially will serve you well. There is no valid statistical data indicating that special test-prep classes increase performance. Study the prep books on your own.   \n\nHope this answer helps. Cheers, mate.
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Depends on the skills you graduated with, the certificate or diploma you hold and the discipline you are trained for.  The medical field is vast, however the requirements for many medical skills require a specialty certificate.
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If you've always wanted to be a doctor and you still want to be a doctor, then you should definitely pursue it.  You only need to take one year of college math as a prerequisite to medical school and you can get a tutor for that class if you're really bad at it. You can major in whatever you want and just take the required courses to get into med school: 1 year physics, 1 year chemistry, 1 year organic, 1 year biology, 1 year math, 1 year english (1 semester biochem and 1 semester genetics required by about 9 med schools).  You'll need to make sure your grades are high and your MCAT score is above average as well as staying active in other activities and being well-rounded. If it's always been your dream, then you should do it.  You are lucky that you know what you want to do.  Some people don't figure it out until they're 40 years old and then they feel it's too late to pursue their dreams.  You are young and know what you want.  Take advantage of this!
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you can't . Everyone has to take the MCAT's. They use those scores and the interview to pick the people who will make good doctors and med. students. Sorry.
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MCAT tests you in 4 areas - verbal reasoning (this could include material like English language, philosophy, historym theater, anything), physical science (physics, inorganic chem), biological science (biology, biochem, organic chem), and essay-writing.\n\nMost of the questions are based on a reading (2-4 paragraphs) that they provide you on the test. Some of the questions are not based on any reading. I think the max score that you can get for each of the 3 sections (essay section isn't numerically scored) is 15, and a score of 10 on each section is considered 'good." As a rule of thumb, if your MCAT score is at least 30, you can get into a good med school (of course, you also need good grades & present yourself nicely at teh interview). Go to the AMCAS wesbite for more info. \n\nBTW, if you are planning on entering med school in the Fall of 2008, you should take MCAT in the Fall of 2007 the latest.
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There are certain classes that everyone has to take to get into medical school and it is really important to do well in these classes.  Take as much biology, chemistry, and physics as you can.  The more you have in high school, the easier it will be in college.  Most med schools also require that you take calculus.  It doesn't matter what you major in, but you will have to take these courses eventually.
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Hi!\n\nI agree with what the above poster said, the GMAT is typically required by Business Schools.\n\nJust like to say, when in doubt, if you have the extra cash take both!  They are really very similar, so it's not like studying for two very different exams.\n\nSubmit the one you recived higher percentile scores in.  \n\nAlso, the results are good for 5 years, so if you change your mind on what school you want at the last minute, or want to transfer later, you'll have the scores if the new school requires the "other" test.
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You do need a BA or BS. Go to the following link, there is some good info on the subject:\nhttp://www.princetonreview.com/medical/research/articles/criteria/prereqs.asp
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You need at least a 32 on the MCAT, but more importantly your GPA must be high... at least 3.7.  Volunteer at the hospital and something not medically related.  Experience in the medical field is key.  Research is excellent because you'll have someone write you an in depth letter of recommendation.
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This is not a decision you have to make now. I would say at this point just take General Chemistry and General Biology along with general education courses at the community college and concentrate on making good grades. After you have completed these courses you will have a better idea of what you would like to major in - Biology or something like English or History.\n\nIt is true that the more science you have, the better chance you will have on the MCAT but medical schools do not require that you major in a science. In fact, they are pleased when a candidate for med school has a broad liberal arts education in addition to the pre-med requirements.\n\nI wish you well at the community college. It is really important that almost all of your grades are A.\n\ns