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Organic Chemistry: the Key to Medical School and graduate Education in Science
 "OCC has one of the best organic chemistry courses in the state! If you take it at OCC, you have classes of no more than 18 students taught by an outstanding Ph.D. chemist, Dr. Pat Demko.
At the large reseach universities you are placed in large auditoriums with as many as 250 students and taught by graduate students for lab and recitation sections. Students rave about the special and personal attention at OCC."
Dr. Jim Brown, Dean of Science, Engineering
Health Sciences, and Human Performance
Why take Organic Chemistry?
If you want to go to medical school or go on in science, you need to take organic chemistry!
Ronald Breslow, Professor of Chemistry and University Professor at Columbia University states that:
 "Currently, medical school admission committees not only require a course in organic chemistry, but they put unusual emphasis on the performance of the applicants in such a course. This is because organic chemistry courses require the mastery of a lot of new material, and the ability to use that material in new ways to solve new problems.
The famous 'synthesis' problems teach more than organic synthesis: they teach intellectual synthesis. They teach how to think through what students have learned to find the facts that will solve a problem they have not seen before. The result is that the ability to do well in such courses is an excellent predictor of the ability to do well in medical school."
Course Descriptions
CHEM 283 Organic Chemistry I
4 s.h. (3 + 3)
This is the first course in a two course sequence exploring the structure-activity
relationships of functional groups. Course topics include
nature of the covalent bond, alkanes, alkenes, stereochemistry, reaction mechanisms, and functional group chemistry. The laboratory work consists
of basic separation and purification, and synthetic
organic laboratory techniques. Prerequisites: CHEM
181 and CHEM 182.
CHEM 284 Organic Chemistry II
4 s.h. (3 + 3)
This is the second in a two-course sequence exploring the structure-activity relationship of functional groups. Course topics include the structure and reactions of aromatic compounds, the carbonyl, and nitrogen containing functional groups. Molecular structure determination using infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance is also discussed. The laboratory work includes organic synthesis and qualitative organic analysis. Prerequisite: CHEM 283.
Why Take Organic Chemistry at OCC?
 The organic chemistry courses at OCC are not any easier than at the 4 year colleges and universities, we just provide more individual attention and smaller class size which increases the chances for student success. Organic Chemistry is known to be the "killer course" for a pre-med curriculum at most undergraduate science programs and has been the "weeding out" course at many universities.
At OCC it is taught by Dr. Patricia Demko who is an outstanding professor and highly acclaimed by her students and her peers. We don't focus on "weeding students out" at OCC but rather on encouraging and empowering them to be successful. Many students find that taking organic chemistry at OCC helped them preserve their GPAs at their 4 year schools and allowed them ultimately, to be accepted to graduate programs in science and medical school.
What our graduates say ...
Many of our graduates insist that it was the individual attention they received at OCC that gave them the edge at the 4 year colleges and universities.
>> register for CHEM 283 or 283 now !!!
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