Why exactly is OChem a premed requirement?

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We have practicing MDs come in for lecture all the time and explain that some of the stuff we learn the first couple years is ONLY for the boards, and that we won’t need to have it readily available from memory. It’s important that you knew it at one point.

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<p>The question is not whether medical school material is relevant to practice, but whether organic is relevant to medical school or at least to medical school admissions as a proxy for specific skills.</p>

<p>Note also, that the visiting docs said only that some material is only for the boards.</p>