Organic Chemistry in Pharmacy School

[jydeguzm]

I was wondering how much and how important is organic chemistry in pharm school? It definitely is not my favorite subject gave me nightmares in undergrad!

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[hye345]

Can't speak for all schools, but at my school, there wasn't much; the closest were 2 semesters of medicinal chemistry, and those were more "remember certain attributes about each structure". True, there were also some reactions we had to know concerning drug structures and what happens to them in the body, but nothing to the degree/variety of organic chemistry courses.

 

[ATXtripper]

Yes MedChem is an addendum/extension to Org. Chem