My Pre-Medical Career

It is Saturday, December 3, 2016 in Brookings, South Dakota where I attend college at South Dakota State University. It is the day of the first round, home, playoff football game between the South Dakota State Jackrabbits and the Villanova Wildcats. While most students are either at the game or watching it downtown at the bars, I am in my room studying. This is the life of a pre-medical student. Being a pre-medicine major and a student of the process of becoming a doctor, I have seen and lived what a difficult undertaking this major is. Though I am only in my third year of the process, I have learned a great deal about what goes into being a pre-medical undergraduate as well as how to be a successful medical school applicant. During schooling, …show more content…
Therefore, another (better) option to improve upon the system is to change the course load at the collegiate level. Every college has general education requirements that they must complete in order to graduate from that specific institution. On top of these general education requirements, students must also take the courses needed to fulfill their major requirements. Between the two, it makes the workload for pre-medical students dauntingly difficult. I found a perfect example of this in Paulo Freire’s “Banking Concept of Education.” Paulo Freire was a writer and former teacher who has dubbed much of the worlds current academic systems as a “banking” concept of education. The college educational system in America falls under this style of educating. Freire describes, in his essay, how the “banking” concept of education form of education is primarily about “recording and memorizing” (216). Freire describes how harmful this is to the learning process of young students, yet pre-medical students are subjected to this in science classes semester after semester in their long academic