As far as I am a junior non-clinical medical student (but the content is the same as clinical medicine), basic medicine is the basic knowledge for medical or clinical medicine to carry out work, research, treatment and examination.
It can be seen from the course arrangement order of medical universities that medical students first study physics, chemistry (basic chemistry, organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry), advanced mathematics and compulsory English in the first semester of their first year. This is because in the future study and work, diagnostic criteria, laboratory test indicators, instrument operation, medical test experiments and various data should be reflected through mathematical knowledge, which is why doctors are all science students. Freshman last semester to sophomore, junior last semester to study system anatomy, histology and embryology (one book and two courses), physiology, biochemistry (physiology and biochemistry must be linked), molecular biology, immunology (the most disgusting), microbiology, parasitology, medical ethics, pharmacology, pathophysiology, medical psychology, medical computer, diagnostics, traditional Chinese medicine. In the next semester of junior year, internal medicine, internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, medical imaging, stomatology, otolaryngology, dermatology, infectious diseases and ophthalmology.
In my opinion, basic medicine is a veritable father of clinical medicine. If we don't know the human body structure (anatomy), normal body fluid components (patients), the mechanism and principle of biochemical reaction in human body (molecular biology, microbiology,), the source, route and evolution process of human cell tissue (embryo formation), the transmission route of pathogenic factors (immunology, parasites) and the toxic and side effects of drug action mechanism (pharmacology, toxicology), we can't diagnose diseases in clinical work. According to the feedback from laboratory tests and auxiliary inspections,
At first, I felt that every course was self-contained and medicine was really too complicated. Slowly, interdisciplinary knowledge has a certain regularity. Later, someone told me that every course of mechanics can develop a professional book thicker than a Chinese dictionary. I think it is a wise saying that medicine is "endless to learn" and "never too old to learn", and we have only seen the tip of the iceberg of medical knowledge all our lives, not to mention the endless medical discoveries and technologies are based on more than one hundred years.