Because I have family members in med school. Don't think you're some sort of god because you got in, you're just a ****ing person just like the rest of us, as are doctors.
Wow...
So I guess having family members
in medical school makes you omniscient concerning the needs of physicians? I suppose this mighty vicarious experience means you
know what doc will
never need to know?
Although I suppose you must be pretty darn knowledgeable about medical school with your in-med-school family members, I might suggest that if you want to get in, you should probably seek out help from med students and residents here, not insult them. Just a thought... I bet they'd be more than happy to give you suggestions on how to succeed in these courses if you weren't so abrasive toward them when they attempt to kindly correct you.
Anyway... I found your first post a bit interesting to say the least:
Great job to whoever thought about this idea, you dumb ****s.
Not only do classes like Physics and Chemistry reflect absolutely NOTHING you will be learning in med school. But it's a complete waste of everyone's time and energy. I hope the person who thought that putting pre-med students through the tortures of undergrad classes died of a horrible cancer mixed with some sort of burning related death.
First of all, I love medicine, I love the interaction with patients and the satisfaction I see that doctors recieve when they successfully diagnose and treat patients.
But classes like Gen Chem and O Chem are SERIOUSLY discouraging and depressing me. I have made pretty much Bs in all my sciences courses. 2.62 GPA (After first year) And I studied HARD, but this stuff just sucks. I took classes like A&P which DO reflect med school and I made easy As, there's something wrong here. I have seen people quit right in front of me, saying they couldn't handle the damn classes.
Who agrees? Some people even try to justify that we will be using this in our career, the nerve.
I noticed you consider A&P as closer to med school than bio; however, I think you're missing the point of the majority of pre-med classes (other than to introduce you to the material and maybe do a little weeding in the process). Physicians are problem-solvers. They need to be able to make complex decisions in their heads often under stressful, unfavorable, and time-sensitive conditions. You may get a call at 2am on an on-call night and be asked to prescribe a medication for a complex and unexpected medical condition over the phone while you're still half-asleep and probably don't really want to be awake too long looking for the answer because you have your first patient at the hospital in 5 hours. That requires that you can think clearly despite being tired and know your basic sciences well enough to figure out a good answer to a problem you may not have seen in 5 years (an answer good enough to keep that patient alive until you get to the hospital in the morning to take care of the issue). If you cannot solve simple problems in which you are basically given a formula (whether algebraic or a set of steps to perform) and told to figure out which numbers go where (hint: unit analysis will solve quite a few, if not most, basic physics & chemistry problems for you w/ halfway-decent problem-solving logic and abilities... the others usually have other, simple or, sometimes, not-so-simple, ways of solving them step-by-step --
that are usually written in your book), how do you expect to be able to make critical decisions concerning which drug and how much of that drug, taking into account possible complications, drug interactions, etc. Remember, all it takes is one wrong decision to become implicated in a wrongful death malpractice suit and all it takes is you losing 1 of those suits to get your license suspended or revoked or, at minimum, much higher malpractice premiums.
Also, I noticed the 1 set of courses you liked, A&P, is basically memorization. You stated that med school is like this. Sure, I'm sure
parts of medical school are this way (almost everything is to some degree), but from what physicians I've spoken with have said, there's a lot more to it than mere memorization. Sure, you'll do your fair share of that, but eventually you're going to be applying those memorized concepts to actual problems and, later, clinical situations and that application is going to require strong problem-solving abilities. If you're struggling with chem/physics now, I think adcoms have every right
and even a responsibility to question your ability to succeed as a physician.
