Pre-medical (often referred to as pre-med) is an educational track that undergraduate students mostly in the United States pursue prior to becoming medical students. It involves activities that prepare a student for medical school, such as pre-med coursework, volunteer activities, clinical experience, research, and the application process. Some pre-med programs providing broad preparation are referred to as “pre-professional” and may simultaneously prepare students for entry into a variety of first professional degree or graduate school programs that require similar prerequisites (such as medical, veterinary, or pharmacy schools).

In Australia, a number of universities offer a three- or four-year Bachelor of Medical Science, Bachelor of Health Sciences or Biomedical Science degree, which is similar in content and aims to pre-med courses in the US.

In Australia, there are two pathways to becoming a doctor. One is undergraduate entry into medical school and another is graduate entry into medical school.

Undergraduate entry is available for graduates from year 12, or high school. And it requires 5-6 years to graduate.

Graduate entry requires previous tertiary education with at least a bachelor's degree. It requires 4 years to graduate.

In Australia, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) are treated the same. Many universities that offered MBBS changed their academic degree's name to MD.

Italian medical schools are 6-year medical schools, and they do not have pre-med courses. Their course includes some biology, chemistry, and physics subjects, but they are not distinguished courses. These kinds of basic sciences are taught together with anatomy and physiology.

To enter a medical school in New Zealand, students require one year of a pre-medicine degree before applying to a medical school.