Can you hate sciences, yet still be in the med. field?

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I am so confused!!! I am taking biology & chemistry courses and I cannot stand them! I am bored and right now, there are no exciting labs & if I do one more graph on mini-tab, I am going to pull my hair out! Then it occurred to me, if I don't like my courses, does that mean that I am not cut out for the health professions field?

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Specializes in Emergency Room.

i took 8 credit hours of chemistry (general & organic/inorganic) .....HATED them both. A&P was interesting, micro was tolerable. i am a RN today.

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Maybe its the way its taught... They changed the curriculum half way through my BN, and started teaching pathophys. etc in the context of patient care - it made a HUGE difference, because you can begin to see the relevance to your future work (unlike before, when it was the most dry, boring, stifling subject I'd ever encountered). I went from barely passing to getting distinctions. Besides, science is only half of nursing - you can't console a distressed patient with a lesson on the physiology of anxiety or something :p

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I had worked as an LVN for many years before taking the science prerequesites. It was exciting to learn WHY we had been doing things. My LVN cource had a lot of memorization. Insufficient time to learn the background and theory.

Teaching future nurses and other healthcare professionals pathophysiology in context with theory would make it interesting.

Gosh, I guess we can't console a distressed patient with a lecture on the sympathetic nervous system.

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I was never too crazy about bio and chem. Micro was semi-ok. Anatomy and physiology was fairly ok to good depending on the prof. Pathophysiology was same as a & p. I hated my bio and chem labs with a passion. And now I'm a nurse. ;)

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I was never too crazy about bio and chem. Micro was semi-ok. Anatomy and physiology was fairly ok to good depending on the prof. Pathophysiology was same as a & p. I hated my bio and chem labs with a passion. And now I'm a nurse. ;)

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Class of 2007 & transplant nursing/research hopeful

Well, if you're serious about the above, you better learn to like them!

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Class of 2007 & transplant nursing/research hopeful

Well, if you're serious about the above, you better learn to like them!

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I'm not a big fan of the sciences either...sometimes they get too technical for me. I don't have any chemistry or biology to take, other than A & P II and I fully enjoyed A & P I so I am not too worried about it.

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I'm not a big fan of the sciences either...sometimes they get too technical for me. I don't have any chemistry or biology to take, other than A & P II and I fully enjoyed A & P I so I am not too worried about it.

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Thanks for your replies. I have not taken A&P yet or Micro, so maybe it will pick up once I get more in depth. I am just in general biology and chem 1 right now b/c my college requires it before I can take the upper stuff, regardless of what I had in high school.

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Thanks for your replies. I have not taken A&P yet or Micro, so maybe it will pick up once I get more in depth. I am just in general biology and chem 1 right now b/c my college requires it before I can take the upper stuff, regardless of what I had in high school.

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