Your wrong–Water boils at 198 degrees! (At least where I live. Makes life interesting and pressure cooker a necessity.) Also all babies are born blue and the normal max O2 sat is 96%.
Both my daughters attend/attended a med school with compressed second year. (Something this school pioneered back in the 90s–so they’ve been doing it for a while now.) Students finish didactics in December of second year. Neither my daughters nor their classmates seem to be deficient in basic science knowledge since the school has an excellent first time pass rate on the USMLE (>96%). This school also requires a research-based thesis for all students for graduation–and all the students seem to be able to manage that too.
@learninginprog University of Oregon doesn’t have a medical school. Oregon’s only in-state public med school is at OHSU (Oregon Health & Science University) in Portland.