Level playing field once organ system modules start?

[kdburton]

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I just got done with my 1st semester of med school. I did very well in some classes and around average in the others. Coming from a non-science background I noticed that a lot of my classmates had a very "easy" 1st semester (this is their words, not mine) and they felt like much of it was review or that the material we were learning merely built off of their background in X subject. I had to work my ass off to get the grades I got, and [although I guess its my fault for not taking these courses in undergrad] I felt like it was almost unfair that the classes seemed to be taught with the assumption that we all took an upper division course in genetics, immunology, biochemistry, human anatomy, etc. Did any of you other non-science majors feel like this? If so, once you got to the organ systems modules did you eventually feel like you were on the same playing field as your science-major classmates for once?

 

[madeyedhl]

the work you have done on ur first semester, it will be worth it later on. keep on trying hard as you can in the organ system as well.

 

[Reimat]

I felt like it was almost unfair that the classes seemed to be taught with the assumption that we all took an upper division course in genetics, immunology, biochemistry, human anatomy, etc. Did any of you other non-science majors feel like this? If so, once you got to the organ systems modules did you eventually feel like you were on the same playing field as your science-major classmates for once?

I don't think it's so much that classes are taught as though everyone has a strong science background, it's just there is a lot to teach and they need to feed it to you at a very accelerated pace. IMO, people with a strong science background will always have a slight advantage all things being equal, but if you work hard learning the material, you can do better than the BS Biochem student that didn't work hard.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

Yeah, it's a pretty level playing field. No basic science classes teach people about Polyarteritis Nodosa, Wilson's Disease, or Multiple Myeoma or any of the other wacky and wild diseases you learn in organ systems. However, compulsive watchers of House MD may have an edge.

 

[kdburton]

Yeah, it's a pretty level playing field. No basic science classes teach people about Polyarteritis Nodosa, Wilson's Disease, or Multiple Myeoma or any of the other wacky and wild diseases you learn in organ systems. However, compulsive watchers of House MD may have an edge.

LOL people in my PBL group have come up with the correct diagnosis based on what they new from an episode of House MD. It was hillarious because we were all wondering how the hell they could have possibly known it and then they confessed