How many classes?

[Algophiliac]

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I am aware that different schools have different teaching methods, but approximately how many classes are you taking at one time?

For example, would you be taking immunology and anatomy at the same time? Or do you take an immunology block and then an anatomy block and so on?

The reason I ask this is because I study more efficiently if I have fewer concepts and subjects to juggle back and forth, so I'm wondering if I may need to fix my study preferences before medical school.

 

[NTF]

Different schools are different. Also some schools may follow one pattern for M1 and a different one for M2.

At my school, we usually have 5 classes at once, though some blocks we have 4 or 3 or even 6.

 

[chessknt]

They are pretty much all over the place. Some schools only test 2x per block so you gotta bring a lot of concepts to the table to pass them, whereas others test weekly or every other week on smaller, more focused chunks. Some schools are systemic while some arent. When you are picking med schools to app to, check their curricula out and see if it jives with what you want.

On an unrelated side note, I stumbled upon a registration thingy under my student account and found that I am enrolled in the equivalent of 38 UC quarter units, just to give you an idea of how much is going on.

 

[waitwhat]

We got it pretty bad.

We have Gross Anatomy w/lab, Biochemistry, Physiology, Histology w/lab, Physical Diagnosis w/ lab, aaaaand OMM w/lab. All at once. Kind of a pain in the gluts.

 

[fahimaz7]

For the next 6 months, we have Anatomy, histology, embryology, physiology, biochem, and genetics mixed in to the same "organ based" modules (ie. musculoskeletal, brain, GI, Cardiac/pulmonary, renal, etc).

Our last written test had
25 biochem
30 anatomy
10 "clinical medicine"
10 histology
10 development/physiology
60 Anatomy practical questions
12 radiology questions.

 

[sunset823]

9. Nobody's got it worse than us. Anatomy (with lab), Biochemistry, Embryology, Histology (with lab), Immunology/Microbiology (with lab) (actually 10 if you count these two as separate classes), Genetics, Physiology, Statistics, Intro to Human Disease. All in one semester. second semester is 8, with Neuroscience (with lab) and Behavioral Science replacing Genetics, Statistics, and Embryology.

 

[DarkHorizon]

9. Nobody's got it worse than us. Anatomy (with lab), Biochemistry, Embryology, Histology (with lab), Immunology/Microbiology (with lab) (actually 10 if you count these two as separate classes), Genetics, Physiology, Statistics, Intro to Human Disease. All in one semester. second semester is 8, with Neuroscience (with lab) and Behavioral Science replacing Genetics, Statistics, and Embryology.

ours is pretty similar except immuno/microbio, and we cover embryology with anatomy and histology.

 

[fahimaz7]

9. Nobody's got it worse than us. Anatomy (with lab), Biochemistry, Embryology, Histology (with lab), Immunology/Microbiology (with lab) (actually 10 if you count these two as separate classes), Genetics, Physiology, Statistics, Intro to Human Disease. All in one semester. second semester is 8, with Neuroscience (with lab) and Behavioral Science replacing Genetics, Statistics, and Embryology.

We all cover the same material the first year. 🙂

 

[username456789]

We all cover the same material the first year. 🙂

Not true. For instance, at my school Micro/Immuno is M2.

 

[Nikki2002]

well at my school they don't list stuff like embryo, genetics, physisology, etc. as separate classes. they lump them into an entire block...like anatomy includes embryo, biochem includes cell bio, genetics and histology, etc.

 

[RySerr21]

Different schools are different. Also some schools may follow one pattern for M1 and a different one for M2.

At my school, we usually have 5 classes at once, though some blocks we have 4 or 3 or even 6.

True. Our MS1 and MS2 years are way different. First year we started off with a week of histology....had one test and then stopped it. Had ONLY biochemistry for about 4.5 weeks. Then started histology again, immunology, and physiology. Biochem is now over and we just have histo, immuno, and physio....Immuno ends mid november and we pick up anatomy after thanksgiving.... MS2 year is way different and basically everything all at once, all the time. Does not look fun.

 

[McPoyle]

First Year Semester 1: Biochem, Genetics, Epidemiology/Population Health, Cell Structure and Function (a mix of micro, histology, and immunology), and a "doctoring" course.

Second Semester: Gross Anatomy, Neurobiology of the head and neck, Physiology, Pharmacology (i think)

 

[SB100]

With the restructured curriculum at our school, a lot of the hard science stuff is grouped together so that exams cover material from multiple subjects. For example, we have biochemistry, immunology, histology, and molecular biology going on right now. We also have soft science, like epidemiology/biostatistics, running concurrently but it is tested separately. There is also a medical interviewing course, selectives, and PBL.

 

[EmersonAnne]

My school is systems-based. We're in the musculoskeletal right now so we do everything related to it. That includes anatomy, histology, pathology, biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, pharmocology, immunology, embryology, radiology, physiology, internal med pathologies, and pediatric pathologies. It's great because it's all connected even if it's a lot to keep straight. I'd prefer it all be clinically relevant like this than just the plain subjects.