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...that the fact that most students apply to multiple schools—the average Harvard pre-med student applies to 18—and it becomes immediately clear that the whole process is tantamount to highway robbery...
...orbital conjugation, to name a few. WTF?! Students are expected to come out of this course with total comprehension of all theories of organic chemistry. In reality, most obtain just enough knowledge to scrape by on the MCAT. Overall: .001 Suicide Risk: 5 Primary Reason for Enrolling: Pre-med Primary Career Path Post-Course: Investment Banking SOCIAL ANALYSIS 10: PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS Course Description: Introduction to the basic principles and methods of economics. With almost four times the number of freshmen enrolled than upperclassmen, “Ec 10” also serves as a gigantic mixer for the incoming...
...students, attending Harvard had the practical benefit of the school not having yet begun its term. “Other [Gulf Coast] students who didn’t go to Harvard complained how everything was at their disadvantage from the beginning,” explains Salahudeen, whose heavy pre-med course load, which included organic chemistry, made starting the semester on solid footing especially important...
...also introduced a clinical skills exam, which every domestic and foreign medical school graduate must pass. Robyn Tamblyn, the lead author of the JAMA paper and a professor of medicine at McGill, thinks the test ought to be given even earlier than that. Why have doctors slog through med school only to be pushed out of the profession afterward because their bad bedside manner? Tamblyn recommends testing students' aptitude for communication as part of the med-school admissions process, or at least testing students early enough in medical school that they can get remedial help if they need...
...matter how grouchy he or she feels. But both the Canadians and the Americans have gone to great lengths to ensure their tests are fair, says Tamblyn. Her study shows that the predictive power of such exams holds irrespective of the doctors' gender or whether they went to med school in another country. "It's a good-news story," says Tamblyn of her study. If we know how to evaluate what makes a good doctor, after all, maybe we can produce better ones. "This could diminish quite substantially the number of complaints," says Tamblyn...