Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement? 567
1-quack-4-malpractice writes "For the second time, the Wall Street Journal health blog has questioned whether premed students should be forced to suffer through organic chemistry. Dozens of doctors weighed in with comments, and many of them seem to think that the wry subject is an almost useless rite of passage. Wired Science points out that there are not enough doctors who do research in addition to seeing patients, and they are the ones who benefit most from a thorough grounding in basic sciences like organic chemistry."
Classic problem. (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of the classic joke:
A college physics professor was explaining a concept to his class when a pre-med student interrupted him.
"Why do we have to learn this stuff?" he blurted out.
"To save lives," the professor responded before continuing the lecture.
A few minutes later the student spoke up again. "Wait-- how does physics save lives?"
The professor responded. "By keeping idiots out of medical school."
Higher Math not needed for CS (Score:5, Funny)
For working in that army of Java and .NET developers that drives the industry, do you really need to understand anything beyond basic algebra? Why burden CS students with silly classes when they won't even need to know what an integral is? I think it's a scam perpetrated by the academic industry to force us to pay for more credits and more books.
the "wry" subject? (Score:2, Funny)
Are you kidding?? (Score:1, Funny)
It should be a highschool requirement...
What the hell is happening to our education?
Re:Classic problem. (Score:2, Funny)
Doctors can't be scientists.
Not with all the laws about human experimentation, those "ethics" things, and that damn hippopotamus.
Re:Classic problem. (Score:3, Funny)
He said Organic Chem not plain old Chemistry.