Nursing School or Medical School?

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Hello! I am in my freshman year of college, and I don't have very much time to make a decision between Biology(for medical school) and Nursing. Since my goal is to eventually become a CRNA through TCU's DNAP(Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice) program i am currently categorized as a nursing major. While reading the requirement for admittance on TCU's website, I discovered that they also accept degrees such as chemistry,biology, physics,etc. For most of my life, I have always dreamed of becoming a trauma surgeon. I have always wanted to be the person that sends people out of the hospital doors better than when they came in and and I wanted to save lives for a living from within the OR. the PA option is also very appealing to me because i get to work lclothesly with other physicians, surgeons specifically because I definitely plan on completing a surgical residency if i go down the PA route. I love surgery and nursing equally, so which degree should i shoot for? It seems a bachelor's in biology leaves me 3 options (DNAP,PA,MD) while nursing leaves me 2 options(BSN,DNAP), but i wanted to hear you guy's opinion on this.

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

Let me put it to you this way: If you want to be a CRNA, go to nursing school. If you want to be a Trauma Surgeon, go to Medical School. Either way, you're going to have to do some prerequisites. If you get all the Med School prerequisites done and you're in Nursing School, there's nothing that says that you can't also apply to Medical School when you graduate with your BSN.

Medical School, from what I've seen, pretty much doesn't care what your undergrad degree is in... they mostly just care that you scored well on the MCAT, you have a very good GPA, and you've done all the prerequisite courses also with a very good GPA. The same could probably be said for PA and Nursing school, just substitute their version of an entry exam for "MCAT" above.