• Question: if u want to be a doctor why is it important to do triple science???

    Asked by ezulfiqar2177 to Carla, Madgie, Nick, Vicky, Werner on 19 Nov 2013.
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      Nick Groves-Kirkby answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      Doctors need a range of skills, but science is a very important one. They need to be able to understand evidence and make sensible decisions about people’s health. They need to know how drugs work, and all sorts of other things that have a scientific basis.

      To study medicine at university you’ll probably need to have studied at least biology and one other science at A Level. I think it would be difficult to get onto a medicine course with anything less.

      I assume your question is about triple science at GCSE. In which case it’s be important to do as many science subjects as you can so that you stand the best chance of doing well at science A Levels. Biology and chemistry would be essential; you could perhaps get away without physics, but I still think it’d be more useful to a potential doctor than most of the subjects you might pick instead.

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      Werner Muller answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      I am not so familiar with the british system. I would look at this page:
      http://www.medschools.ac.uk/Students/howtoapply/Pages/UCAS.aspx

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      Vicky Forster answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      I can’t really add much to Nick’s answer, other than I think it’s probably because many doctors will mainly need biology and chemistry knowledge – but some doctors, such as radiologists (who do X-rays for example) will most definitely need to have some physics knowledge.

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