Can Molecular Cell and Biochemistry a sufficent course or just Biochem course

[Doctor_Strange]

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I'm looking for peoples' experience with either classes. Next spring, the only course offered is Molecular Cell and Biochemistry course and I don't know if this course alone will satisfy the material needed to know for Biochemistry on the MCAT...

 

[Doctor_Strange]

Wow, i butchered the title. i just want to know if a molecular cell and biochemistry course through the biology department be enough for the mcat?

 

[mathnerd88]

Depends on the school...honestly you don't need to take the course to do well on the MCAT. Just study from the prep books and do a lot of practice questions.

 

[TexasMedic15]

I agree with the above poster. You don't really need to have taken Molecular Cell/Biochemistry to do well on the MCAT. Prep books, for the most part, will teach you pretty much everything you need to know. There really isn't as much actual "biochem" on the new MCAT as people think there is. I will say though that if you were to enroll in the course that you mentioned, it really couldn't hurt you in any way unless you do absolutely terrible in it. If anything, it'll just prepare you better for when you see the same subject material in med school. You probably won't remember much by the time you start school, but maybe bits and pieces will slowly come back to you as you are deep in your studies.

 

[pstrick]

I took the MCAT without having taken an actual biochem course, but having taken a cell bio course.

It seemed to me that my cell bio class covered a bunch of the biochem stuff I needed to know. I had to study AA and cellular respiration on my own, but that was it.