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...member Medical School Consortium last week approved a proposal for the formation of a steering committee to investigate ways to find pre-med students who possess the skills a physician needs to perform his job, Dr. Robert S. Blacklow, associate dean for academic programs at the Medical School, said yesterday...
These skills include the ability to solve problems, to deal with data and to come to conclusions. The committee also hopes to find ways to measure attention span and the ability to form hypotheses, Blacklow said...
...dissecting how good physicians and fourth-year students deal with these problems, one could devise a methodology which could recognize, these qualities in pre-medical students," Blacklow said...
When the steering committee fully develops the experimental design, first and fourth-year medical students from the 13 member schools will take part in the pilot study, Blacklow said...
...only add vague notions that by concentrating students will "come to grips with fundamentals." Faculty members insist they do not intend the requirement to get Med students into specialties early, although it may certainly have that effect. The faculty's real motivation seems to be suggested by Associate Dean Blacklow: they think students would just enjoy their education too much without the requirement. And now that they are aligned squarely behind the concentration requirement, they hardly have the humor to back off in the face of student pressure, however great...