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premed

premed

6 4.2
Courses or programs that prepare students for medical school
  • adjective
  • /ˈpriːˌmɛd/
  • US
translation icon : premédico
  • UCC has a premed program-- absolutely blows Ol' Tex away.
  • premed student
  • premed courses
  • premed program

Examples

  • 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.

  • - It's part of my premed background.

  • I am in college-- premed and prelaw.

  • Eve... l've been thinking about maybe going premed.

  • James is premed.

  • 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

premedical
vspremed
4.7

Studies that prepare students to enter medical school

covers a wider range by adding programs and activities

Surface Forms

premed positive

Morphology

premed = med (semi-transparent) = pre + med

The prefix 'pre-' is clear, but 'med' as an abbreviation for medical or medicine requires contextual knowledge.

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.