{"id":181,"date":"2015-08-25T09:13:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/?p=181"},"modified":"2015-08-25T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:13:42","slug":"premeds-versus-organic-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/2015\/08\/25\/premeds-versus-organic-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Premeds Versus Organic Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"Premedical students hate organic chemistry. It\u2019s true.\r\n\r\nWhile preparing a poster for the Medical Library Association Annual Conference, I did a literature review of barriers to retention for undergraduates in premedical programs. I expected premeds to name required science courses beyond biology \u2013 chemistry, physics, and mathematics. However, I didn\u2019t expect organic chemistry to be singled out. Check out the free article in <em>Academic Medicine<\/em>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/pdfs.journals.lww.com\/academicmedicine\/2008\/05000\/Addressing_Medical_School_Diversity_Through_an.19.pdf?token=method|ExpireAbsolute;source|Journals;ttl|1440455901074;payload|mY8D3u1TCCsNvP5E421JYK6N6XICDamxByyYpaNzk7FKjTaa1Yz22MivkHZqjGP4kdS2v0J76WGAnHACH69s21Csk0OpQi3YbjEMdSoz2UhVybFqQxA7lKwSUlA502zQZr96TQRwhVlocEp\/sJ586aVbcBFlltKNKo+tbuMfL73hiPqJliudqs17cHeLcLbV\/CqjlP3IO0jGHlHQtJWcICDdAyGJMnpi6RlbEJaRheGeh5z5uvqz3FLHgPKVXJzd++Xw1xrBvVGm3URNugOVtQ5dVXv5\/n8T\/BGd9zMfKIYEW0cE2WW7YrsxbHFlMU3L;hash|RPo7czbkibsZJwZXIezppg==\">The Leaky Pipeline: Factors Associated with Early Decline in Interest in Premedical Studies among Underrepresented Minority Undergraduate Students<\/a>\u201d to read about the negative impact of chemistry on premeds\u2019 interest in pursuing a medical career.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premedical students hate organic chemistry. It\u2019s true. While preparing a poster for the Medical Library Association Annual Conference, I did a literature review of barriers to retention for undergraduates in premedical programs. I expected premeds to name required science courses beyond biology \u2013 chemistry, physics, and mathematics. However, I didn\u2019t expect organic chemistry to be&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/2015\/08\/25\/premeds-versus-organic-chemistry\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Premeds Versus Organic Chemistry\">Read more &raquo;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[108,107],"tags":[110,109,111],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-premedical-students","tag-academic-medicine","tag-medical-library-association","tag-organic-chemistry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5tTwG-2V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}