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Báo cáo y học: "Good chemistry"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Good chemistry. | Comment Good chemistry Gregory A Petsko Address Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center Brandeis University Waltham MA 02454-9110 USA. E-mail petsko@brandeis.edu Published 26 February 2004 Genome Biology 2004 5 103 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http genomebiology.com 2004 5 3 l03 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Last month Genome Biol 2004 5 102 I suggested that the teaching of basic chemistry courses in US colleges and universities was hopelessly out of date as well as out of touch with the needs of students in the life sciences. Topics and examples in general chemistry haven t changed significantly in over four decades and organic chemistry doesn t do much better. Both of these subjects are taught to large groups of students who will never become practicing chemists - chiefly premedical students and life-science majors - and whose experience with chemistry neither endears them to the subject nor gives them much in the way of useful tools for their future professions. Because so many people including textbook authors and publishers and the chemists who teach these courses have vested interests in maintaining the status quo I argued that reform from within the system was unlikely if not impossible. And I proposed that the entire edifice be imploded and rebuilt from scratch with the biggest consumers of chemistry students the medical schools taking the lead in forcing change from the top down. I expected these deliberately inflammatory comments to provoke a storm of response and they did. I received more e-mail about this column than I did even for the column on the dog genome with its pictures of two cute puppies. But to my surprise the response was one of unanimous - not just overwhelming but unanimous - agreement. The consensus among readers seems to be that the system is indeed broken beyond what patchwork renovations can repair. Given that my remarks appeared in a biology journal I take this as a sign .