Which of these courses is generally the toughest?

[leagall]

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1) Medical Biochemistry

2) Human Gross Anatomy

3) Human Physiology

Thanks!

 

[pingouin]

moving to Pre-Allo

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Do a search.. there are plenty of threads on this topic.... but anyways.. I think the most common answer is anatomy.

 

[rhesuspieces]

I took all three and got the lowest grade in Biochem...too many cycles to memorize. For me, biochem was hardest, followed by physiology, then anatomy. I'm better with the big stuff that's easier to visualize.

 

[gravitywave]

depends completely on you, and on your professor. kind of a silly question IMO

 

[deleted357625]

check out the professor, that is the determining factor for the course being hard/easy

 

[jaspr]

Though it does depend on the professors, anatomy is generally brute force memorization and would probably be the easiest, provided you put in the study time. Biochem might be the hardest conceptually. Phys is probably somewhere in between.

 

[deleted357625]

im planning on taking anatomy/phys this summer? good idea?

easy prof though i heard, but yea i understand you have to memorize etc

 

[UpperEastSide]

medicinal biochem is not the same as regular biochem. In regular biochem, 1 semester is just DNA and protein, the next semester is carbohydrates, and all the pathways (glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, TCA cycle, ETC, purine and pyrimidine de novo synthesis, fat synthesis, steroids, few more but i forget).

In Medicinal biochemistry (or medicinal chemistry) you go through the classes of drugs (barbituates and benzodiazepines are the only ones i still remember eh, wonder why 😉 ) and learn the 'chemistry' and biological functions of each class. LOTS of memorizing for this class, but it's doable.

 

[rHinO1]

If it matters, I suspect the OP was talking about medical school level courses in these subjects, not undergrad.