Why exactly is OChem a premed requirement?

[sakky]

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org chem is a necessary requirement because ten or twenty years out of college you will not remember basic principles of organic chemistry unless you were forced to learn ten times more in college. students will forget 90% of the material after taking exams. so, if you have them study only basics, they will not have any understanding of chemistry whatsoever.

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<p>I have no issue with premeds studying some OChem. The issue is *which parts * of OChem should they have to study. If they will never need to know certain topics, then it is questionable whether they should be forced to study them.</p>