Biochem in med school

[realruby2000]

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Hey guys,

Im in undergrad right now... and takin a biochem class and i wanted to kknoow how it compares to the first semester of biochem in medschool...

we covered glycolosis, krebs cycle, ETC, gluconeogenisis, PPP, Glycogen Degradation, lipid catabolism, amino acid catabolism, urea cycle, and stuff on DNA replication/transcription/translation..... and mabey some other stuff i cant really remember

some one told me all this will get me through the first exam....is this true?

 

[ckent]

Yup. You have to know all that and more for med school biochem. Seems kind of silly to have to memorize the Kreb cycle, but that's the way it goes.

 

[realruby2000]

what other stuff is there to know....is it a whole lot more?

 

[dingiswayo]

you'll also cover heme synthesis, bile acid synthesis, clotting, a lot of molecular endocrinology(thyroid, pituitary, sex hormones, etc), extracellular matrix, and probably some other stuff i'm forgetting... also, i don't know what the emphasis of your course was, but medical biochem emphasizes regulatory steps, enzyme- and vitamin-deficiencies, other abnormal states (eg. alcoholic, diabetic, PKU, etc).

 

[Kazu]

Buy or look at Lippincott's biochemistry review book. The author is harvey. We covered everything in there.

 

[Zeffer]

I was very glad to have a tough Bio Chem class prior to Med School. In Med School we didn't focus so much on the structures BUT it really helped to know them. My undergrad class helped me a great deal because some of the topics were review for me so I could focus on the new stuff and other classes.
Lippencott Bio Chem review is the Gold Standard for what you will cover. I also found it helpful to keep my undergrad Bio Chem book to use as a reference (Voet, Voet, Pratt).

 

[double elle]

I didn't have biochem prior to entering medical school. I was scared to death! However, I found it to be my favorite class, as it really was interesting.

As far as your question goes, the biochem majors in the class said we exhausted their entire major in about 6 weeks...and we had TWO quarters of it!

 

[Sugar72]

Thank you Double Elle for your post. I had an intro biochem class in the fall of 1997 and have basically forgotten the majority of it. I have been thinking about it lately and was worried. Your post made me feel so much better. I think you are the first person on the last year to post anything on biochem that didn't stress me out!

 

[Green912]

It's funny that I came across this topic now. I'm finishing up for my Biochem test this afternoon. The worst thing I'm reading here is that my "Voet" book is just a warm up for the Lippencott book (which I've never seen). <img border="0" alt="[Wowie]" title="" src="graemlins/wowie.gif" />

 

[Zeffer]

Don't worry too much about bicohem. You will be able to do it. The Voet book is much more detail than Lippentcott. I used it only for reference and clarification. Most likely your school will have a set of notes that will be complete enough for you to study from, with the occasional need to get clarification.

Green912 Good luck on your bio chem test.