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I'm sure there was a thread like this some time ago.

Biochemistry is taught quite badly at Birmingham in my opinion. There isn't much teaching and all the teaching of metabolism is split up among three modules, so you end up scratching your head trying to work out how the pathways inter-relate.

Obviously biochemistry is important in medicine, but it's not really a medical science, as most research is done in biosciences departments and on bacteria, I think. If you feel absolutely captivated by biochemistry, perhaps you should do that as a degree instead of medicine. Of course there's no reason why you can't have an interest in it as a medical student and indeed biochemistry is very important in pathology labs - although most people there are scientists or MLAs under the over all charge of a haematology consultant, I believe. Probably I'm very mistaken.