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First off the block in April was Bok, who uncorked a sweeping broadside at the state of medical education in this country, saying undergraduates and med students have been overloaded with basic science to the detriment of other disciplines of which they should be aware...
...most [medical] students today are getting an education that is far too narrow to prepare them for the challenges that await them in their working lives." Bok offered praise for a controversial new pilot program under development at the Medical School, which will offer an alternative to the traditional med school curriculum of two years of classroom study, and then two years of clinical training...
...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...