Thursday, August 11, 2011

I want to be a surgeon, so which one of these schools would be the best for me as undergrad?

College of the Holy Cross outside Boston has twice the national rate for acceptance to medical schools and is nearing completion of a 60 million dollar science complex. HC is exceptionally strong in Premed and the sciences in general. According to the American Chemical Society, Holy Cross is one of the nation's top producers of ACS certified chemistry graduates. More than 10 percent of the 35,000 living alumni of Holy Cross are physicians and dentists. Famous HC Premed alums include: Dr. Joseph Murray who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1990 for his pioneering work in transplant surgery. Dr. Murray was the first surgeon to transplant a human organ, a kidney. Dr. James Shannon was Director of the National Institutes of Health and is considered to be the father of the NIH. Dr. Robert Scully is the editor of the Weekly Clinicopathological Exercise from the M. General Hospital, which is published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This is probably the most widely read regular column in all of medicine. Dr. William Nolen wrote many books on medicine including The Making of a Surgeon and A Surgeon's World. Dr. Anthony Fauci is the head of the Nabonal Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, where he is leading the government's efforts to combat the AIDS virus.

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