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UNOFFICIAL GUIDE
laboratory test results – know how to distinguish the clotting disorders by these
results! Make sure you understand the graphs. He really is a good teacher, keeps
your attention, and is really up front about what he wants you to know for the
test (almost everything) while including a lot of good visuals which help you out.
He is a self-made millionaire from his work on anti-clotting agents, but is very
approachable so feel free to ask him about anything!
Dr. Weigel: Dr. Weigel is the chair of the biochemistry department and has a
large portion of the second test block. If you had biochemistry in undergrad you
probably already know (and loathe) at least the basics of his material – glycolysis,
the Krebs Cycle, and the citric acid cycle. If you haven’t had it yet, fret not, it’s
actually doable, despite what the syllabus may look like. Dr. Weigel is a fairly
good lecturer. His syllabus contains a TON of information, but he will stress
what he thinks is important, like specific enzymes and intermediates. The
information he presents in his lectures also won’t follow the order it is presented
in the syllabus exactly, so if you’re a syllabus-follower like me he will seem to skip
forward and backward, but the information is almost all there. Dr. Weigel will
also intersperse his powerpoints with random cartoons. If you like Farside and its
kin, you’ll probably like Dr. Weigel. Despite the overwhelming nature of
carbohydrate metabolism, Dr. Weigel’s test questions are straightforward, and he
tends to stick to the points he stressed as important. That said, I would
recommend at least being familiar with what is in the syllabus, even if he didn’t
spend a ton of time on it.
Dr. Weigel returns in the third test block for glycoconjugates. Again, there will
be an overload of information in the syllabus, but he will jump around and cover
the things that are most important to him. The most important (and interesting)
part of this section are the glycogen storage diseases. Know these well. Remember
which enzyme is the problem in which disease and the defective metabolic
product, and the consequences. His test questions will again be straightforward
and he will most likely stick to the material he stressed in his lectures.
Dr. Olson: Dr. Olson lacks a little bit in lecture style. Her lectures are difficult
because she can’t get out a complete sentence without interrupting herself. But,
the biggest complaint we all had was that when she tells you that she doesn’t
want details – every step in fatty acid metabolism, every little enzyme – she’s not
exactly telling the truth. You will also find that her material does not run
together well. For what it’s worth, the class above us told us that her questions
would be impossible so we all studied her section really well. After taking the
test though, none of us thought her section was really that bad. She will have a
couple test questions, which will make you wonder if the material was covered at
all. Only advice I can give you is have a great Exam Review Chair. In other
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