Inorganic Chemistry Question...

[chacem]

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Hey guys, quick question....
I was searching through a load of DO schools, and of course, a common requirement is Inorganic Chemistry. I noticed on one of the websites that that a requirement was Inorganic/Gen Chem... So, is "Gen Chem" what is meant by all of the DO schools? or is it actually a year of Inorganic Chemistry?
thanks,
Chace

 

[crys20]

Inorganic = Gen Chem

They mean the same thing to the schools.

 

[chacem]

hmm.... that's a huge relief.. See, at our school, there is general chemistry AND inorganic chemistry... so it led me to believe that there was an additional requirement

 

[crys20]

Yeah I know what you mean, but I know for a fact that some people call gen chem inorganic and I guarantee you the DO schools aren't going to require an extra year of some additional physical or analytical type chemistry 🙂

 

[mastamark]

hmm.... that's a huge relief.. See, at our school, there is general chemistry AND inorganic chemistry... so it led me to believe that there was an additional requirement

To be safe I would probably take the genreal chemistry. My wife graduated from my school about 2 years ago to get her BSN in nursing. The inorganic chemistry is what she took and it was not as involved as my genral chem. As I practice for the MCAT there are problems that she was not taught in inorganic. I think inorganic is as basic as it gets at least at my school. I would definately check if I were you.

 

[group_theory]

No DO (or MD) schools in the US require inorganic chemistry. However, they all require general/intro chemistry.

While some school may call their intro chem course inorganic - it really is a misnomer - inorganic chemistry is a seperate branch of chemistry and in most major universities, inorganic chemistry is an upper level chemistry course along with pchem, anal chem, orgo, biochem, etc. Calling general chemistry inorganic chemistry because some topics of inorganic is covered in gen chem is almost analogous to calling intro biology "molecular genetics" because you covered DNA, RNA, histones, etc. in the intro class.


I doubt your wife dealt with point groups, symmetry elements, group theory, characterization table, irreducible representation, MO and LGO theory, crystal and lattice structures, etc. that is commonly found in syllabus of most "intro" inorganic chemistry class. It really is a shame that her school called her gen chem class "inorganic" (note the blame is on her school, not on her)

Here are some syllabus of "inorganic chemistry" classes - as you can see, it is not general chemistry,

http://www.cmu.edu/mcs/van-outreach/gfw_inorgchem_p3_syllabus2.htm
http://chem.unk.edu/chem430/syllabus02s.html
http://www.lycoming.edu/chem/spring2005/333syl.htm
http://web.chemistry.gatech.edu/~wilkinson/Class_notes/spring_2000_1311_web_page/syllabus.html
http://www.jsu.edu/depart/pes/chemistry/gryko/syllabi/cy311.html

Anyway, for the OP - inorganic chem is not required by any medical school in the US. At least 1 year of gen chem + lab is required though.

 

[mastamark]

No DO (or MD) schools in the US require inorganic chemistry. However, they all require general/intro chemistry.

While some school may call their intro chem course inorganic - it really is a misnomer - inorganic chemistry is a seperate branch of chemistry and in most major universities, inorganic chemistry is an upper level chemistry course along with pchem, anal chem, orgo, biochem, etc. Calling general chemistry inorganic chemistry because some topics of inorganic is covered in gen chem is almost analogous to calling intro biology "molecular genetics" because you covered DNA, RNA, histones, etc. in the intro class.


I doubt your wife dealt with point groups, symmetry elements, group theory, characterization table, irreducible representation, MO and LGO theory, crystal and lattice structures, etc. that is commonly found in syllabus of most "intro" inorganic chemistry class. It really is a shame that her school called her gen chem class "inorganic" (note the blame is on her school, not on her)

Here are some syllabus of "inorganic chemistry" classes - as you can see, it is not general chemistry,

http://www.cmu.edu/mcs/van-outreach/gfw_inorgchem_p3_syllabus2.htm
http://chem.unk.edu/chem430/syllabus02s.html
http://www.lycoming.edu/chem/spring2005/333syl.htm
http://web.chemistry.gatech.edu/~wilkinson/Class_notes/spring_2000_1311_web_page/syllabus.html
http://www.jsu.edu/depart/pes/chemistry/gryko/syllabi/cy311.html

Anyway, for the OP - inorganic chem is not required by any medical school in the US. At least 1 year of gen chem + lab is required though.

Thats exactly what I meant. I said that her inorganic class wasn't as advanced as my general chemistry. Hers was a one semester course while mine was two. I covered those topics that you have mentioned while she didn't. Bottom line if you want your class to be accepted at most Medical colleges(osteo or allo), it behooves you to take the General Chemistry/Intro