Word: erdmann
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...test will last about twice as long and will measure problem-solving skills that a doctor needs in ordinary office practice, according to Dr. James B. Erdmann, director of Educational Measurement and Research for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and a principal designer of the test...
...major factors in the change was the need to be able to recognize the variety of undergraduate preparation and the diversity of talents in potential medical school students," Erdmann said yesterday...
...revised sections of the test include a mathematical section stressing the ability to work with numbers rather than knowledge of complicated formulae, and a verbal section posing clinical type situations rather than word analogies and synonym-antonym problems, according to Erdmann...
...Erdmann said that the first step in developing the new test was to poll practicing physicians, internists, medical students and medical school professors to determine which traits were desirable in a doctor...
Motorists asked Derwinski if the price of gasoline would really climb 200 per gal., as the papers were saying. Over coffee, Steel Salesman Tom Erdmann wanted to know: "What are we going to do? I drive 30,000 miles a year." A school official wondered how many buses he would be able to keep running. And everyone was worried about rationing...