Re: Medical, Pharmacy, Optometry, Podiatry, Dental Schools/ etc.
In my first week we were required to read 300 pages of a dense histology book and we were tested on every paragraph. And....That was only one class! Classes started at 8 a.m. and finished at 5 p.m. It was grueling. All the classes were that intense.
If these students are struggling with organic chemistry as undergrads, they will not have the discipline or intelligence to manage graduate school in the health professions.
Actually the course material in Pharmacy School was not difficult. Pre-Pharm had gotten rid of those that would not make it. What made it difficult was the massive amount of drugs, data, and disease states we had to learn. It was massive.
We would first study the disease state and then how to treat it. Oddly on the tests there was not only one right answer. You can treat disease states with many different drugs. If your treatment plan was logical, it was the right answer.