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Medicine or biochemistry before pharmacology???

Hello!
I want to be a pharmacologist in the future ( hopefully). I really want to go to Oxford but they don't have undergrad courses in pharmacology. So I was wondering if I have to do medicine or biochemistry, so that I can go onto doing pharmacology.
Thank you :smile:

Reply 1

Serine Soul

Hey, if not Oxford, there are plenty of places that offer Pharmacology as a degree, and I think in the Cambridge NatSci course you can specialise in Pharmacology in the last years of the degree.

But if you're set on Oxford, then I'd say Biochemistry, it's more relevant and if Pharmacology is your one aim then it would help you get there quicker :smile:

I'm quite interested in Biochem myself and I'm hoping to go into some kind of biochemical research sometime :smile:

Reply 2

nexttime

Both biochemistry and biomedical science are intended to set people up for careers in pharmacology. Chemistry is also an option.

If you don't want to do clinical medicine i would not take a medical degree.