graduate level physiology as an undergrad

[nonsciencemajor]

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I am a nonscience major having been accepted to a US MD school and I start in August. I have registered for a graduate level biology course Human physiology course offered in my undergrad to prepare me for med school. The textbook is medical physiology written by Guyton. Do you all think this course will make med school easier? thanks.

 

[DirtyJustice]

How does you being a non science major affect anything?

 

[nonsciencemajor]

How does you being a non science major affect anything?

i only did the pre-req's... year of general bio, chem, orgo, and physics

other bio majors entering med school have done upper level bio courses, so to compensate for that, I plan to take a grad level physio course before entering med school

 

[willen101383]

So your strategy is to post the same question in multiple different threads, in hopes that someone will validate your desire to "prepare" yourself for medical school?

 

[armybound]

It could give you a slight advantage going into med school.

Of course if you fail the course it's not going to help you much.

 

[zayka]

I think that a graduate school course would probably have a bigger emphasis on research than you may need, but it definitely doesn't hurt you to take the course and you'll learn useful stuff. Besides, physiology is pretty interesting.

 

[Charles_Carmichael]

Physiology is lot of fun. It's so much more conceptual than pretty much any other biology course. I thoroughly enjoyed it and had a great professor (who taught M1 physio as well) teach it. Best class I've ever taken!

I don't recommend Guyton unless you have a lot of time though. Ours was supposed to use Boron but that book is best left for PhDs. I used Physiology by Costanzo and her BRS book. That combination worked really well and it's quicker to get through than reading Guyton's or Boron's.

Hope this helps.