What constitutes a "med school course"?

[vooweevoo]

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Sorry if it's a silly question, search function is not working at the moment. Is it simply a medical school based course, histology, pathology etc, the type of upper level courses you could take at any university? Or is it a course tuned and available only to medical students/certain post-bac's, with actual medical students in it? If it is the later, is there any merit in taking those upper level class at a regular university as far as impressing adcoms is concerned (compared taking those classes with med students), other than getting a head start on subject material? Thanks!

 

[junebuguf]

A med school course is one that is taught at an accredited allopathic medical school in the US, and is included as part of the curriculum for an MD degree at that school. Most curriculums are standardized and include courses such as Anatomy, Histo, Biochem, Physio, Endo, Immuno, Path, Pharm, Cell Bio, Microbiology, et.

A similar course taught at the undergraduate (or even non-MD graduate) level is *not* the same. MD courses have extensive memorization requirements and are tailored towards clinical applications rather than basic science research concepts. So, they have more breadth than depth.