Undergrad class more detailed than med school class?

[unsung]

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Did any of you find that your undergrad class actually required a higher level of detailed knowledge than your med school version of the same class? Just wondering, 'cuz at the rate (pace) we're covering the material, some topics definitely sort of get the shaft and only receive a cursory review before we skip right past.

I'm assuming the topics will be covered again in some other form in some other class over & over again later on, until we get a deeper understanding of the topics at the end of everything. I'm sure at the end of our MSI/IIs, we'll have that deeper level of knowledge, overall.

But still it's kinda surprising that my undergrad version of the class I'm taking now actually seemed to require a deeper understanding of the material. Is that normal?

 

[studentologist]

There were topics that maybe one of my undergrad classes went into more detail, but it was for minutiae, PhD-type information (I'm not meaning that in a negative way, necessarily). Med school tends to cover information that has clinical relevancy.

I wouldn't say that an undergrad class required higher level detailed information compared to med school. You cover 100x more information than what is covered in a pre-med undergrad class, which overshadows what one class in undergrad covered in detail.

 

[ThaliaNox]

I've noticed this as well, especially in biochemistry. We move through the pathways a lot quicker than we did in undergrad, but we certainly don't delve in as deeply. I would expect it is due to the neccessity of focusing on pertinent information which is directly medically relevant.

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

I pretty much agree... It's not a lack of detail per se as much as a lack of depth. My classes are 100% detail, lots of nitty gritty memorization with very high averages on tests, which means we have to know basically everything...but the testing is much less demanding in terms of how much understanding they require. Rote memorizers seem to do pretty well. I'm not getting the in-depth "put everything together" type questions that I got in undergrad. Maybe it's because most of my classes have like 15 different professors though.

 

[unsung]

I pretty much agree... It's not a lack of detail per se as much as a lack of depth. My classes are 100% detail, lots of nitty gritty memorization with very high averages on tests, which means we have to know basically everything...but the testing is much less demanding in terms of how much understanding they require. Rote memorizers seem to do pretty well. I'm not getting the in-depth "put everything together" type questions that I got in undergrad. Maybe it's because most of my classes have like 15 different professors though.

No, you are right. Perhaps I worded my OP poorly. There's certainly no lack of detail in med school class. It's just a (surprising?) lack of depth. VERY little "why" does this or that happen, for any of the basic science courses.

Yeah, I know I just said in the other thread that I have no prob with rote memorization now... but apparently I lied. I don't know. I guess I honestly thought I'd gain a more in-depth understanding of the basic sciences (like biochem, etc.) than I did as an undergrad taking the same courses. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly learning a lot of new info (esp some clinical trivia)... but deeper understanding of the topics being presented? Errrm... no. 🙁

I can't wait for physio. Physio physio physio!! I think it's probably the type of course/information I envisioned myself learning in med school before I came here.

 

[Decicco]

Genetics and biochem seem to have less detail/depth than in ugrad. Anatomy, however, is detail overload. I guess they make a judgement of what is clinically and scientifically relevant.

 

[MSSM2013]

my school features lotta understanding related questions.

 

[Black Surgeon]

Did any of you find that your undergrad class actually required a higher level of detailed knowledge than your med school version of the same class? Just wondering, 'cuz at the rate (pace) we're covering the material, some topics definitely sort of get the shaft and only receive a cursory review before we skip right past.

I'm assuming the topics will be covered again in some other form in some other class over & over again later on, until we get a deeper understanding of the topics at the end of everything. I'm sure at the end of our MSI/IIs, we'll have that deeper level of knowledge, overall.

But still it's kinda surprising that my undergrad version of the class I'm taking now actually seemed to require a deeper understanding of the material. Is that normal?

Why would a Med student need to memorize the name of every splicesome in yeast? We are not training to be in research, and even those guys have books they use for reference.