premed
- adjective
- /ˈpriːˌmɛd/
- US
- UCC has a premed program-- absolutely blows Ol' Tex away.
- premed student
- premed courses
- premed program
Examples
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One spectacular example of mentoring and cooperative learning is the premed program at Xavier University, a historically Black college in New Orleans.
Academic text (1995) -
-My parents are pushing premed.
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- It's part of my premed background.
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I am in college-- premed and prelaw.
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Eve... l've been thinking about maybe going premed.
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James is premed.
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It plays a dual role in the curricula of a university: one as a core course for its majors and the other as the service course for premed, engineering, or liberal arts students.
Academic text (2004) -
Ambitious for an education, which she had engineered through a series of lucrative scholarships, she'd landed at the university and enrolled in a premed curriculum.
Fiction book (1994) -
What parents and siblings don't know won't hurt them; hopefully, we are still those same bright-eyed, eager 18-year-olds our parents dropped off at Carman, so innocent and so premed.
Blog text (12) -
Many universities offer a premed program that includes courses in biology and chemistry.
Synonyms
Studies that prepare students to enter medical school
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Premed comes from pre- meaning 'before' and med from medical or 'medicine'. So premed classes are courses you take 'before' medical school to get ready to become a doctor.