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Medical Scientists

Education and Training Requirements

High School

Recommended high school classes include anatomy and physiology, health, biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, English, and speech classes. Be sure to take writing and communications classes, if offered at your school. Developing strong communication and writing skills is important in this field, particularly because medical scientists must be able to write effective grants and publish their research findings.

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