So you are telling me med students are wrong? How are you qualified to make these statements?
Fair enough. I'm not a med student yet, and I can't speak to everyone's medical school experience...but then again, most med students can't do so. I'm in a very small and tight-knit major. Med students, residents, and attending physicians who have graduated from my program come back every year to discuss their experiences. Those who continued as medical students at my university tell us to save old exams and quizzes, because they will be repeated during the first year. We take classes WITH medical students, and we are given old exams to review for study, so I believe them. Beyond the classes we take in parallel with medical students (like medical physiology), we take pharmacology, biochemistry, cell biology, and genetics with pharmacology PhD students.
This in no way minimizes what the med students take, but it's not clinically oriented and goes into greater depth than anything any returning med student or physician who graduated our program claims they took in medical school. Some are from our school, but many others are coming back from Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Harvard, Tufts, and UPenn.
So maybe I'm not "qualified" to make these statements. But I'll trust that the 20 or 25 former students who have come back for seminar lectures or alumni events are not misleading all of us by telling us that our first year in medical school (at least in prestigious schools on the East Coast) will be far less daunting for us than it will for those who haven't already encountered these classes.
Again, I can't speak to (and didn't try to speak to) classes taken elsewhere. But although I think highly of my school, I don't think it's the only one that offers similarly difficult and in-depth classes to undergraduates who choose to take classes like biochem, genetics, physiology, and pharmacology.
