Old not-so-funny joke:
What do they call someone who graduates from medical school at the bottom of his class?
Doctor.
Didn’t he have tenure?
Won’t matter much once we have single payer healthcare because no one will have access to it at that point anyway and treatments will be whatever is mandated by big pharma.
I saw my Cardiologist earlier this year. He had a new resident training who had no idea how to use the echocardiogram. Heaven help us!
Future anything = covid vx
I’ve taught O-Chem, it’s supposed to be tough and yes it’s a course that weeds out the lower achieving pre-med students. I explain on the very first day what you need to do to get an A in my class, mostly it’s a serious time commitment. Some listen, some don’t.
The medical profession will be mostly done by robots within twenty years, maybe sooner.
Dumbing it down will speed that process up.
The elites will get human doctors, and they will be people who could pass organic.
Is it really to much to ask for someone to show up to class?
Similar thing happened at UF College of Engineering nearly 30 years ago, mandatory course called Hydraulics. Kind of necessary for civil engineering. Tough class but you could get through it (with a C which was enough). Anyway a couple of a-holes complained to the dean, and rather than watering down the class (pun intended) the professor quit. A loss to generations of future engineers, when you made it through his class you *knew* the material.
This is what happens when a generation is given trophies for coming in last.
A friend of mine who has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Stanford used to be a chemistry professor. Many of his students were taking chemistry as a prerequisite for medical degrees. They were so unprepared coming out of high school that he had to resort to teaching them remedial algebra first before they could even have a prayer of understanding chemistry. It was pathetic.
I loved both semesters of organic. A lot of memorization. But so much fun!!
The lab was long tedious afternoons.
Organic separates the wheat from the chaff.
My husband’s degree is in Chem. Mine was medical technology.
We both had a year of organic.
Great memories.
This empire is over. Our education has been declining for a long time.
“Organic chemistry is a very difficult subject.”
When I took it, the professor insisted it didn’t require a lot of memorization. But it seemed to me mostly about rote memorization. Reagents, temperatures, pressures, catalysts.
Flash cards were my friends.
Organic Chemistry was not so hard.
P-Chem was a bugger!
Organic chemistry first semester is actually very easy, second semester also easy for those prepared (similar to Calculus II). Physical chemistry was a lot harder and more like filtering courses in physics and engineering.
It’s most probable that this guy’s students were a lazy and whiny bunch who didn’t put in the effort to pass organic chemisty (I took a year of organic, so I’m quite familiar with the drill).
On the other hand, I knew an engineering professor who would brag that at least 50% of his students would fail his upper-level engineering classes. It was like he was proud of it.
In that particular case, I think the problem was with the engineering professor, and not with the students. So you never know.
Updating my checklist for finding a good doctor ......
All I can say is: Snowflakes, preferred pronouns, "my truth," campus safe spaces, .........
Not enough morons are able to get a “college diploma” because college is too hard. Gotta make it easier like the banana republic universities. Affirmative action and “diversity” is the greatest threat to our national security. Maggots and morons with diplomas are running around all over the place trying to find jobs. Unfortunately they all have diplomas with piss pour intelligence and work ethics.
Isn’t this the school that pays all the costs for medical school? Well, if they couldn’t get into medical school, they could always switch gears and become environmental scientists or palm readers.