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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who calls it orgo? [/quote] I work with med students, and have mostly heard orgo, but some - especially those from state schools - call it O Chem The terminology “O chem” makes more sense if you are a chemistry major because the sophomore year spent doing “O chem” is followed by junior year doing “P Chem” (stands for “physical chemistry”). P chem was the trifecta of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics (each of which was a semester). There was a separate class junior year called “inorganic chemistry” which covered reactions with compounds that don’t contain carbon. We also took biochem junior year as well as lots of long lab courses. Junior year as a chemistry major was a bad year…. It is interesting to me that our current med students are still so traumatized by orgo that they continue to allude to it years later - long after they survived and made it to med school.[/quote]
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