strange post

[Pedantic]

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"I'm a Brown alum & current med student and seriously, none of it is relevant to medical practice. Ok, biochem helps for like 2 weeks when you learn metabolism, but metabolism isn't all that useful once you actually learn medicine. Interestingly, physics has the most application of the non-biology courses (helps with understanding physiology of cardiology & pulmonology). Every once and a while, Gen Chem helps a bit, but don't get your hopes up. The bio classes help for the first couple months but are otherwise way too basic science-y for most of real medicine. Physiology is far and away the most useful for anything. Really only stuff about humans helps - don't bother with animals. Learn to talk to people and how to be nice. And please don't fritter away your education chasing A's in O-Chem at Brown - take it in summer school if you have to, it's just so not important beyond your medical school app."

- this post was online on http://www.browndailyherald.com/201...ements-reflect-modern-medicine/#disqus_thread

Strange much?

 

[eteshoe]

I mean sort of - when one is practicing medicine, they won't be utilizing the same basic science skills that got them into med school. That doesn't mean someone shouldn't learn the material and use the principles to enhance their understanding of medicine. But maybe I'm biased due to this PhD thing I'm doing.

 

[Psai]

College courses don't teach you how to talk to people and be nice. Requirements are the bare minimum that are necessary to understand the material. I've noticed a clear difference in the way that chemistry/physics/engineering people think vs biology people vs humanities. The harder sciences seem to give you a better framework for critical thinking and application rather than stopping at just memorization

 

[eteshoe]

College courses don't teach you how to talk to people and be nice. Requirements are the bare minimum that are necessary to understand the material. I've noticed a clear difference in the way that chemistry/physics/engineering people think vs biology people vs humanities. The harder sciences seem to give you a better framework for critical thinking and application rather than stopping at just memorization

It's the only way you learn to survive the onslaught of information being thrown at you.

 

[CubsFan314]

I guess it depends on how you look at it. Physicians are trained by first understanding how the body works (including the basic organic chemistry of it all) and from there understanding what happens when things stop working correctly (disease states). NPs/PAs on the other hand are taught to think about things from the presenting symptoms with a more limited emphasis on fundamental science. Although the NP/PA training approach will work for 90% of illnesses that show up in a primary care environment, it won't be enough if something doesn't fit the algorithm or if you are interested in doing research to improve medicine in general.