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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. Re:Organic Chemistry by ajparr · · Score: 1, Troll

    There's that fag talk again...

  2. MOD PARENT INFORMATIVE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    n/t

  3. Re:Classic problem. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, I forgot that no medical science was performed at the lab bench or on animal models. It's all exclusively on humans. Great, thanks for reminding me.

  4. Re:Classic problem. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    At good colleges, there are different O-chem classes based on your preference for depth of understanding. If you went to one of those, you could find the premeds in one and yourself in another. But you didn't, so stop whining.