Which pre-requisite helped you the most in dental school?

the most helpful classes are not even prereqs - they are things like anatomy and especially physiology.

I would agree. At my undergrad we took anatomy with cadavers and that made gross pretty easy for me in dental school.

biochem!!!

i said ochem not for the material.. but ochem actually taught me how to learn material, and i would never trade that class for everything.. --- now put biochem on that list and i would choose that also.. general biology ===most useless course there is, and i would even venture to say it is pretty irrelavent to the stuff we take in dental school

i said ochem not for the material.. but ochem actually taught me how to learn material, and i would never trade that class for everything.. --- now put biochem on that list and i would choose that also.. general biology ===most useless course there is, and i would even venture to say it is pretty irrelavent to the stuff we take in dental school

How so?

Which pre-requisite helped you the most in dental school?
I'd agree with the other posters on classes beyond the pre-reqs being more applicable to dental school. I think the most important thing you can do is hone your study skills and learn to kick back, relax, and have a good time when your body and your mind need it.

general bio that i took didnt' provide me of a way of learning things.. i tended to just memorize the stuff given and not explore the over all depth of the material and how it relates to the broader picture (this is me talking after studying for microbiology for the last 10 hours.. and more to go!!)

organic chemistry. i learned quickly that i couldn't memorize everything in it.. and if i were to try to memorize it then i would loose track of the subject and hate it. so i learned went down to the basics and spent countless hours trying to understand the basics.. and from their the big picture of the subject.. now i do this same philosphy with every subject i take, there is usually a jumping point in every subject that if one understands then everything else can be easy to come by. -- take anatomy for example -- learning the names of muscles and nerves randomly is challenging and point less, but if you were to take it down to some simple steps and build on it, then it becomes easy, and then follow it by adding some relationships to the structures and knowing some key points here and there then subject of gross anatomy is extremly simple and less challenging than most people put it out to be.

i agree with a previous poster that the main thing that the pre-reqs are actually good for is just "learning how to learn", getting your study and memorization skills down and sort of giving a taste of science to people who might not be sure if they enjoy the field and/or can handle the workload.

I have to say that if there is one pre-req that helped me, but IS NOT required by the dental schools:

SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY

You will not regret taking this class (if you take it at Rutgers at least)

ReG

why do you have 5 freaking threads with the same question? delete them.

why do you have 5 freaking threads with the same question? delete them.

I don't. The other threads asks a different question, and I was trying to make the one with a poll. I would delete the duplicated ones if I could.

How so?

cuz general bio is just a basic survey of biology and is so simple that you cant really use any of it without knowing more detail - which is what you get in biochem, genetics, microbio, immuno, neuro, anatomy, physiology, mol bio, cell bio, etc...the list goes on...