How important is math really when pursuing a career in pediatrics?
Math was never my best subject and especially this year, as a high school junior, precalculus hit me hard. When I see numbers mixed with symbols like theta and sin cos etc, I get mini headaches. My cumulative average for ONLY math subjects (algebra, geometry, algebra 2/trig, precalculus) is about 85. I'm just wondering how will this impact and affect my future. #college #doctor #career #science #health #math #pediatrics #pediatrician
2 answers
Vernon’s Answer
Math is critical to almost all medical degrees and specialties. Medical school will present you with a curriculum in pre-med that will have all sorts of math. There is a washout course in pre-med called Physical Chemistry. Embrace it, or pick another field.
If you persist, if you organize your time and thoughts, sooner or later the elegance of math will strike you. It happened to me in probability statistics. It will happen to you too. If you're already getting 85s, it will probably be sooner.
Gabrielle’s Answer
Math is important when doing drug calculations. I was in Nursing School and we used Math a lot. The highest math I had to complete was statistics. Don't let math get you down though!
Interesting! I took a statistics course freshman year of high school and it doesn't seem as bad as concrete math like calculus/precalculus/trig. Those worry me the most!