A Manual of Organic Chemistry: For Medical Students

Aids to Organic Chemistry for Medical Students

Teaching biochemistry to medical students in Singapore--from organic chemistry to problem-based learning.

The medical faculty in the National University of Singapore started in 1905 but the Chair in Biochemistry was only established in 1927. For many years the biochemistry course consisted of the teaching of the organic chemistry of substances of physiological importance, nutrition, metabolism and hormones. In 1961, clinical biochemistry was introduced and in the 1980s, genetics and molecular biolo...

Catalysis at the intersection of biology, chemistry, and medicine.

Ihave been exceptionally fortunate to hold, as my only professional jobs, faculty positions at two outstanding research-intensive universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, for almost four decades. This has been an opportunity to work with many of the world’s best colleagues and predoctoral and postdoctoral students and to get an unparalleled and conti...

New “Green” Experiments for the Organic Chemistry Laboratories

1. Abstract: This project involves replacing a number of the currently used organic chemistry experiments with equally educational, yet more environmentally friendly experiments. Most of the fuels, materials, and medicines in our modern world have come about through advances in chemistry. Unfortunately, the production of these vital resources involves the formation of waste. However, new proces...

Premed survival: understanding the culling process in premedical undergraduate education.

PURPOSE Why undergraduate students pursue or drop a premedical curriculum has received only scant attention. In this study the authors attempted to uncover reasons why students either persevere in their premedical studies or seek alternative careers. METHOD Using convenience sampling, the authors surveyed 97 undergraduates at a small liberal arts college from November 2000 to March 2001. Of t...