Thinking I should quit Pre Med?

[baconshrimps]

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Well there is probably more memorization, legal problems and liability in pharmacology for med students than there is actual chemistry

Medical Pharmacology is different from classical pharmacology in the sense that you are not calculating K values or Ki numbers for drugs. Remember: Drug - Classification of Drug - Metabolism of Drug - Excretion of Drug - Indications for Drug. Contraindications for Drug - Drug/Drug interactions.

If you try to make any medical school course more than it really needs to be, you can count on performing below average in your class. Fact.

 

[notbobtrustme]

If there is no chemistry in medical school, then why is biochemistry a required course in medical school? Are you telling me that there is no chemistry whatsoever in pharmacology?

There's nothing a chemist would recognize as chemistry in biochemistry and pharmacology. Biochem = memorization of pathways without any real reasoning why those pathways happen (eg thermodynamics). Everything boils down to whether or not delta G is positive or not and no one goes into the reasons why. Step 1 tests whether or not you can recognize enzyme nomenclature and whether or not you know the pathways sufficiently. Pharmacology has maybe two classes in the entire course that would be remotely related to chemistry (kinetics/dynamics) and this is done at an extremely superficial level, basically Vd = Css*halflife. The rest of the class is devoted to memorizing huge drug lists, their MOAs and their side effects.