<p>Is it only in the 1-2 yrs? Sources would be great :)</p>
<p>I’ve never seen a school with more than 1 semester of biochemistry, unless that school uses an integrated systems-based curriculum, in which case the biochemistry is spread out over the year. The density of medical education doesn’t allow for more than that.</p>
<p>If you want sources, there are 150+ medical schools in the US - just start going to their web pages - the vast majority (if not all) post their curriculum online for prospective students.</p>
<p>I’ve only had 5 days of formal biochemistry in med school. But it covered 1/2 of my college biochemistry course :-/</p>
<p>hmmm… i looked at two college websites so far and biochemistry was ONLY in yr 1…along w/ many other subjects…</p>
<p>so would that mean in the clinical years of med school, theres not much biochemistry involved?</p>
<p>^ well there certainly isn’t any classroom biochemistry (thats the idea of the clinical years - you aren’t taking any more of the basic science - biochem, cell bio, etc. - courses), but the subject itself is in the background of all the pharmacology, etc. that you’ll be using every day in clinical practice.</p>
<p>Btw, NCG, 5 days? Man, I’m jealous haha. My school has semester-long biochem course, and for people like me who doesn’t like chemistry, it was not fun.</p>
<p>Everything is based on biochem/cell bio. I’m in renal right now, the topics are biochemical and cell bio in nature. Gradients, transporters, channel subunits, etc. You will learn and retain enough information to be able to follow easily in concepts, so you can’t escape biochem. When you are a physician you’ll attend conferences and more likely or not be walked through biochemical pathways and things of that nature. That being said, it is really the least of your worries.</p>