No, physics is probably sufficient as a first easy hurdle to thin the pack. There will be others.

I was teaching a Sophomore level engineering course in modeling and simulation that was required of everyone. Some science majors students had to take my section because there wasn’t sufficient enrollment to run a science section that semester.

The first day I discussed the term project and let it slip that the simulation part of the project could be written in whatever language the students were familiar with.

A biology major who was in a pre-med program asked: “Will programming be required? I wasn’t told we would have to program.” I told him that if he really wanted, he could flip a coin 100,000 times to capture the random events for the simulation and write down all the results for analysis. Or figure out how to program. I pointed out that (at the time) we were 8 years into the 21st Century and undergraduate students at the school had been required to have PCs for almost 25 years.

He cried to the dean of science who laughed at him and I got a call from his mother. She didn’t appreciate my coin flipping comment either.

Years later, I had a discussion with an MD about differential diagnosis of diseases and conditional probability (using prevalence of disease in local populations to inform diagnoses) and realized that more gating courses are needed. He had no concept that diseases that present with similar symptoms might be more likely in some areas than others. Under diagnosed Lyme disease in particular.