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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many posters saying Bs/Cs not good enough and may need to spread out coursework if GPA not great. Are these kids cut out for med school?

Hundreds of hours shadowing, clinical volunteering, community service- hundreds of hours- what is the purpose of so many hours as an undergrad?

Then in med school- kids routine staying up until 2-3am studying… how is this good?  Why are they cramming in so much information in 1-1.5 years? Wouldn’t the gap year be better spent learning some of this? Seems better to space out med school over an extra year instead of spacing out premed/gap over so many years.  Sure, it’s great learn everything but is it really better to learn multi variable calculus/linear algebra or advanced physics topics instead of taking more time to learn anatomy/physiology/pathophysiology?
Most vast majority of physicians use algebra 1 at the most. And if you need other advanced topics, you get that in residency. [/quote]

to understand the kidney, intestines, the knee, the brain, healthy and diseased, as well as pharmacology and technologies for imaging and surgery, you need to thoroughly understand biochem which needs orgo and gen chem as a prereq, and physics mechanics and E&M which need calculus as a prereq.[/quote] Why stop there? To thoroughly understand calculus you need real analysis, and to thoroughly understand analysis you need formal mathematical like set theory, and to thoroughly understand that you need logic, and to thoroughly understand logic you need philosophy...

This is self-evidently ridiculous.[/quote]

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