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  • In the USA, organic chemistry is required by the vast majority of medical schools, and organic chemistry I is a prereq for biochemistry in most colleges.

    Your average applicant is going to have Orgo1/2 and biochemistry though.

    As far as the questions go, one was a multistep synthesis (It seemed to screw up markovnikov vs anti markovnikov addition if I had to guess where it went wrong).

    It didnt seem to do well with HNMR, or Fischer projections, it also got a mechanism of ring breaking wrong.

    It did get the question right regarding stability of chair conformations though.

    I cant post the exact questions as im not home where my old Ochem book is, but those are the jists.

    It seems to struggle with the more visual problems.

    Edit: The AAMC has a list of requirements for med schools, so far I’ve seen… 3 that dont require Ochem and use biochem in its place? Thats certainly not all of them, but theyre also certainly a extremely small minority. Although again, most universities also have Ochem1 as a prereq for Biochem. And if you’re college is an ACS compliant university, they’ll make you take ochem 2 for biochemistry also. Which is lame.



  • Out of curiosity, i put in some organic chemistry practice questions into ChatGPT just now, it got 1 out of 5 correct. Im not an outright hater of AI (I do dislike how its being forced into some things and makes the original product worse, and the enviromental impact it has) but i’m sure in the future it’ll be able to do some wonderous things.

    As it stands though, I would rather my doc do a review of literature rather than trusting ChatGPT alone.




  • Good news. The MCAT, USMLE, and board exams are all done in a proctored environment with no electronic devices allowed. Hell, you cant even take a calculator in for the MCAT, so you better be cool with doing Arrhenius Equations by hand.

    As far as doctors go you might be able to get through your premed degree with ChatGPT, but you’re not going to get 500+ on your MCAT and you certainly aren’t passing Step 1 of the USMLE.









  • Oh I know what you meant, exactly. It’s grade school history. It’s also the same take repeated endlessly on internet forums where pedantry and needing to spell out every single facet rule supreme. So I guess I’ll spell it out. “The economy refers to the fact someone was able to pay for a home, family, and yearly vacation on an entry level, high school diploma as the only requirement job. The civil rights and liberties people are stating as the one thing they didn’t want to bring to modern times.”

    I’m going to assume you know why someone would want that without the abuse of minorities, immigrants, or third world countries.

    Or you can just pull the same thing everyone else does and state, “A society like that couldn’t exist without that exploitation.” like the true unique free thinker you are. To which I say prove it. We’ve always had a rich parasite class that needed exploitation, those who are fine without being far wealthier than others are perfectly capable of doing fine without the exploitation, its the leeches that require it.