Biochemistry

[Acheron]

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Hi,

I finished my undergraduate degree already but there are still a few courses that I wish to take before applying to medical school. I am going to be taking biochemistry this fall but it has been two years since I had organic chemisty and three years since general chemistry.

I'm wondering what I should brush up on prior to the start of biochemistry. Essentially, what topics should I re-familiarize myself with heading into biochem?

 

[TAWS]

You only need to know the first semester of organic chemistry.

 

[Goobers]

Depends. I took it at Stanford and it was bioCHEM. Open book tests; all mechanism. Took it at Tufts Med and it was BIOchem. No chemistry at all; lots of memorization. If you can find someone at the school where you're taking it, I would ask them.

 

[SunDevilDoc]

Proteins, specifically enzymes. You'll need to memorize the amino acids, citric acid cycle, electron transport, etc... I thought it was a really easy class. Hardest part is enzyme regulation memorization

 

[schrizto]

Depends. I took it at Stanford and it was bioCHEM. Open book tests; all mechanism. Took it at Tufts Med and it was BIOchem. No chemistry at all; lots of memorization. If you can find someone at the school where you're taking it, I would ask them.

kinda off topic, but you have a beast MDapps! 👍

 

[TAWS]

Depends. I took it at Stanford and it was bioCHEM. Open book tests; all mechanism. Took it at Tufts Med and it was BIOchem. No chemistry at all; lots of memorization. If you can find someone at the school where you're taking it, I would ask them.

open-book biochem tests? must have either been a really hard or really easy class

 

[Goobers]

kinda off topic, but you have a beast MDapps! 👍

Thanks, that reminded me that I hadn't really been updating it. oops.

open-book biochem tests? must have either been a really hard or really easy class

The classes just had different goals I think. Stanford's was geared towards PhD students and Tufts's was for med students. I'd say that Stanford's was more difficult conceptually, but Tufts' was a lot more work. No big surprise.