The course considers selected topics in general, organic, and biochemistry as these areas relate to the health sciences. It is the intent of the course to impart to the student an understanding of the attitudes, methods, and theories by which chemistry attempts to explain basic chemical phenomena within the body.
Utilization is made of in-house prepared materials, films, models, and demonstrations.
Each lecture is designed to generate questions about how the concepts relate to the individual students and to health sciences. Given a prefix used in the metric system, write the decimal equivalent, and vice versa. Given a set of metric units, place the units in order from smallest to largest. Given a relationship between two units, write a conversion factor. Use a conversion factor to change one unit to another.