The inclusion of the humanities in medical education may offer significant potential benefits
to individual future physicians and to the medical community as a whole. Debate remains …

2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice The health care system in the United States has
been called the best in the world, but many of its residents cannot afford or do not have …

Objectives To better understand the consequences of the premedical years for the character
of (future) physicians by critically reviewing the empirical research done on the …

Context While medical curricula were traditionally almost entirely comprised of bioscientific
knowledge, widely accepted competency frameworks now make clear that physicians must …

Medical Education 2011: 45: 36–43 Context Twentieth‐century medical education
constructed medicine as biomedical science. Although bioscientific knowledge has brought …

The college-level pathway to medical school (ie, the “premed path”) includes all coursework,
extra-curriculars, shadowing, volunteering, high-stakes examination (eg, MCAT®), and …

Providing a comprehensive and evidence-based reference guide for those who have a
strong and scholarly interest in medical education, the Oxford Textbook of Medical …

While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely
positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, his handling of …

Previous research has documented that negative experiences in chemistry courses are a
major factor that discourages many students from continuing in premedical studies. This …

Purpose Students compete aggressively as they prepare for the MCAT and fulfill traditional
premedical requirements that have uncertain educational value for medical and scientific …