There are many benefits to having a degree in medical technology for medical school.  The second year labs are almost identical to those taken in med tech school.  If you just review your notes, you are pretty much guaranteed a high pass. In medicine, you use parasitology, microbiology, hematology, clinical lab science, blood banking, and serology.  All of these help as a third year medical student and as a resident with interpreting lab results.  After you do a history and physical, you need to know which tests to order and how to interpret the results to make a diagnosis.  If you suspect anemia, you need to know how to interpret a CBC.  If you suspect meningitis, the gram stain can guide your antibiotic choice.  If a patient needs a transfusion, you'll know how to interpret the lab results to choose which component will help the most.  Knowing how to interpret a chemistry panel  will help with the many electrolyte disorders. For the above reasons and many more, I think med tech is an excellent choice for a premedical degree.