New, Medical School Update 11-13-09 and answers to study questions

General update on school, study advice in answer to questions, joke of the day and random medical fact of the day.

Ok here is (as promised) a list of the courses I took in college that I would recommend to other people pursuing a medical degree.

First semester:
-BIC classes (not relevant)
-calculus
-Gen Chem I--- important for the MCAT

2nd Semester
-BIC classes (again not relevant)
-Biology I--- important for mcat
-Bio I lab " "
-Forensic survey (for forensic science major, not relevant)

Third semester
-BIC classes still not relevant
-Bio II and lab important for mcat
-anthropology, not really important for anything

fourth semester
-BIC classes
-Gen Chem II important for MCAT
-Genetics and lab... important for MCAT and very useful in medical school
-French I
-firearms evidence for forensic science major

summer after sophomore year
-Physics I and II and labs---- important for mcat, absolutely useless in medical school so far
-EMT-Basic Training--- looks good on resume, gets medical experience, very fun, can get a job
-health and performance x 2

Fifth Semester
-Bic Classes
-Organic Chemistry I-- good for MCAT
-French II
-Osteology (for forensic science classes but very useful in medical school anatomy)
-medical terminology

Sixth semester
-Bic Classes (finally these were over!!!)
-Honors Organic chem II--good for MCAT
-Chemistry Lab (very useful for MCAT and I met my beautiful girlfriend/future wife)
-Biochemistry (very good for medical school, would say it is a must have... entire first semester of med school revolves around this class)
-princeton review mcat

Summer after junior year
-French III and IV

Seventh Semester
-Forensic Entomology (study of insects)
-Forensic Anthropology/physical anthropology---good, helps with anatomy (skeletal) in med school
-Sociology/criminology
-forensic psychology
-Forensic Toxicology---the ugly stepchild of pharmacology so this is very useful for medical school

Eighth semester
-Histology--- very useful for medical school, is part of 1st semester!!!
-Human Physiology (H phys)----very useful for medical school
-Molecular Biotechnology--- very useful for medical school, a course about biomedical research methods... i have seen about 80% of the subject matter in the first 3 months of medical school
-Crime Scene Investigation---fun class but not any use in medical school
-Death Injury and Human remains- forensic science class capstone, not useful but very fun
-forensic chemistry---not useful but very easy


I wish I had taken
Immunology
Cell-Biology/physiology
Pharmacology
Molecular genetics
tempted to say nutrition but it seems easy enough

thats about it