Word: meds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard group cites three major areas as problems for pre-medical students. First, as Verba says, "With requirements in the Core, concentration and pre-medical requirements future med students are left with as little as four electives." To ease the burden, pre-meds frequently major in a science field, combining medical school and department requirements and maximizing electives. "We want to make it possible for students to major in any field they want and still attend medical school," Federman says...
...look at what's being taught, I think the content of these courses is really less and less relevant to a pre-med. We teach science on the cutting edge," Dowling says...
...problem is that undergraduates come to med school with too much science and not enough science: they're not well rounded enough, but much of the science they have learned is not relevant," Verba says...
...widespread praise from medical schools across the country, according to Federman. Dean for Students and Alumni at the Medical School, Federman has approached the directors of a number of schools in recent months about the plan. "The reaction for some sort of change in the current system of pre-med education was overwhelming," he says...
...oriented nature of pre-medical courses. "I've liked the approach they took that you weren't just being prepared for the MCATS or medical school. They [pre-medical courses] were real science courses," says Elaine T. Anderson '84. "I think almost everything you're doing in your pre-med courses will pop up again in your first year of med school," says Lenny Ganz '84. Both Anderson and Ganz majored in Biology. Both will attend Harvard Medical School...