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Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement?

Posted by timothy on from the both-ways-with-extra-snow dept.

1-quack-4-malpractice writes "For the second time, the Wall Street Journal health blog has questioned whether premed students should be forced to suffer through organic chemistry. Dozens of doctors weighed in with comments, and many of them seem to think that the wry subject is an almost useless rite of passage. Wired Science points out that there are not enough doctors who do research in addition to seeing patients, and they are the ones who benefit most from a thorough grounding in basic sciences like organic chemistry."

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  1. Organic Chemistry by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Short answer: no.

    Do engineers need differential equations? Hell no, only Maple or Mathematica and the ability to translate differential equations into Maple or Mathematica Syntax, then apply the answers to what they're doing.

    Leave the miles-long blackboard scrawlings to the mathematicians.

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