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medicinal chemistry

  • 03-03-2011 2:45pm
    #1
    hatethisfeeling
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    Hey, I tried doing a search on this course but all the threads on it were old. Just wondering if anyone here is doing the course, If they like it and what the job prospects are like? thanks


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  • #2
    Fo Real
    Closed Accounts Posts: 479 ✭✭Fo Real


    It's a relatively new course. It only became a JS Science moderatorship option in 2007 or 2008, if I'm not mistaken. There is always a high demand for the course simply because it contains the word "medicinal" in the title. You will share classes with the chemisty and biochemistry kids. I'd imagine the career prospects after college would be the same for every other science course in Ireland - nil. Prepare to move abroad to a more developed country to find work in the science sector. It's still considered witchcraft by the gombeens in this little catholic backwater.


  • #3
    Jammyc
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    In my opinion, its untrue about people being drawn to it for the word 'medicinal'. If you like organic chemistry and such, you'll enjoy the course. I'm not doing it now, but the demonstrator in our lab this semester and last year was a postgrad in the school of chemistry, having done med chem, he gave us pretty good insight into it. Aside from research or work in pharmaceuticals, I can't see what other opportunities there are.


  • #4
    revz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭revz


    Was in it last year;
    You follow the general science course in JF & SF years, doing Chem/Bio/Maths in first and you have the choice of dropping maths in 2nd year (by taking up double biology).
    I feel I would've liked 3rd/4th year a bit more but didn't like the general feel in the first year and have switched course now.
    Pretty sure the sophister years would be essentially organic chemistry as the poster above mentioned, some pharmacology and that.

    I had a meeting with a lecturer in the Hamilton building when deciding what to do last year, when I asked them what most people do after completing med chem, they replied "either go on to postgraduate level study or secondary school teaching." So that was their view of the prospects. (I got the feeling they didn't have a lot of time for the course or something...)

    I got the image postgraduate level study is needed in many of the science sector jobs (i.e. drug research), be ready for that if that's the route you'd like to go down!

    I feel I'm not painting a great picture here, I loved many things about the year, I'm sure someone who has overall had a better experience of the course in its entirety can help you out a bit more!


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