Stupid Questions...

general chemistry = inorganic chemistry
organic chemistry is usually not called by any other name.

Very few schools offer a pre-med curriculum and medical schools don't expect you to have this as your major. Most people major in biology or another science because all of the pre-reqs may be applied to your degree. Someone majoring in Economics or another non-science course will have to use a good portion of the science courses as an elective.

Majoring in a nonscience degree will not hurt your chances at getting into medical school so it is my opinion to try to take a degree you will enjoy or will find useful after graduating.

Feel free to ask any question you want. The only dumb question is an unasked question. These questions you ask were asked by all premeds at some point.

 

Did not see the second part of your question. Do you have a link to your school course catalog?

my school has 2 general chem courses one is for nursing, nutrition, and health science students and the other is for premed, science majors, and lab tech. You should take the one that is required for your biology degree and you will be fine.

 

At my school they have the same thing. One is specifically for life science people (Chem 177 and 178) and the another is for the others that don't need as intense of a class (Chem 165 and 166). Just check with the Chem department and they should tell you. My school does the pre-med curriculm but you have to follow it under a major, like Zoology-pre-med.


Anne Marie

 

Your degree requires:
Chem 111/112 gen chem
Chem 331/332 ochem
Those will work for pre-med


you have the option of general and intro physics and I'm not sure if Intro physics is acceptable at most MD/DO schools.

 

chem 441-443 is upper level chem for chem majors.
look at the prereqs for ochem(chem 331-331) they list chem 111/112 and this is usually standard for most schools:gen chem as pre-req for ochem.

clarify this with one of your advisors. Also you may want to see if your school has a pre-med office. It may be in the Pre-Professional office (Pre-med, prelaw,etc).You may need them for a committee letter.

 

Good luck in orgo lab. I had labs 6pm-10pm. I usually spent the whole 4 hours in fear I was going to screw up my experiment. Everynight I went home thinking I needed a beer! Orgo lab 2 is cool though because you are just refining what you learned in orgo 1 lab

 

with the biochem you are taking you can apply to KCUMB and UNECOM. Add some behavioral science and you can apply anywhere. good luck.

 

Inorganic is the freshman gen chem I & II that are taken PRIOR TO organic