Undergrad genetics course - irrelevant for medicine?

I'm curious whether anyone else shares my opinion on this class being a nearly complete waste of time? I'm currently taking this as a pre-req, and I'd have to say that it is one of the top two or three most hated classes I've ever taken. I'm literally angry after a couple of hours of studying it, because I really couldn't care less about the genetic peculiarities of deep sea Archaea residing near black smokers, or what particular wild-form gene was mutated in the third step of an... Undergrad genetics course - irrelevant for medicine?
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