premed

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noun

pre·med (ˌ)prē-ˈmed

ˈprē-ˌmed

: a premedical student or course of study

premed

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Example Sentences

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Noun

Mayde Creek High School Arman Thomas Yazdian- Valedictorian; David Liu - Salutatorian Yazdian plans to attend the University of Texas at Austin to major in biochemistry as a premed to become an anesthesiologist after medical school. —

Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 29 May 2018

Adjective

Organic chemistry is widely viewed as a weed-out course, used to push students off the premed track. —

WSJ, 11 Oct. 2022 Janett is a biology major on a premed track, and Kathy is a nursing major. —

Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2021 Thompson became a top student at a prestigious Black high school, and in 1955 he was accepted into the premed program at Boston University. —

BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021 People can be a bit concerned about sounding like everyone else and just like all the premed students at their school. —

Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT, 16 Aug. 2021 The fridge serves a large homeless population, said Rogers, a premed junior studying biology. —

Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2021 Hempfling, a 5-foot-9 junior from Ottawa-Glandorf, boosts a 3.84 GPA in premed and psychology. —

cleveland, 13 Mar. 2021 Students at Illinois College tended to be studying business, premed and prelaw. —

Freep.com, 12 Feb. 2021 My premed professors rarely spoke about the downstream effects of health policy, or lack thereof, and conversations around political decision-making in medicine were largely kept to courses outside of the standard curriculum. —

Yoshiko Iwai, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2020 See More

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