To not learn any calculus puts a pretty hard cap on what amount of statistics you can learn. For some doctors, maybe that's ok. Those that are more ambitious re

To not learn any calculus puts a pretty hard cap on what amount of statistics you can learn. For some doctors, maybe that's ok. Those that are more ambitious really need ot learn calculus. Also, it's funny that you say so, because when I started my first calculus course, I got to know a really smart Med student who happened to think that just studying Medicine was too easy, so he enrolled in Math in the side, and over the first few semesters he was getting the best grades of all 400 or so Math-students, while still being a full-time Med student. For people like that, adding some calculus is not a hindrance. Some can learn single and multi-variable calculus in a couple of weeks each. (And quite a few Med students are really smart.)