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...easy part. Just be sure of getting A's in science and good SAT scores, and maybe do some volunteer work in a hospital (it looks nice on your record). Get set! The pressure is on in college. Nothing less than an A will do for all pre-med courses. Choose a major in one of the sciences and fill out the rest of the schedule with "Mickey Mouse" subjects, lest your cumulative average slip below Aminus. Go! You are in. At med school you will spend 30 to 40 hours a week at lectures, and as many more...
...Medical education is not in optimum health," declares Dr. Daniel Tosteson, dean of Harvard Medical School. What is worse, he adds, is that "there is little agreement on the diagnosis and treatment." Indeed, virtually every med school dean in the country has his own prescriptions for fixing what is wrong. Last week, for instance, prestigious Johns Hopkins School of Medicine announced a plan to guarantee admission to students still in their junior year of college. The purpose, said Hopkins Dean Richard Ross, is to encourage students to take a broader and more flexible approach to their senior year. Said...
Unfortunately, very few medical students are so broadly educated. Far too many who start out with wide interests become narrowly focused in their fight to get into med school. Students blame the problem on admissions committees, which emphasize grades and test scores over the personal attributes and interests that may make an individual a superior doctor. Notes Utah University Psychologist Calvin Taylor: "Based on test scores, you cannot predict who is going to be the most knowledgeable physician ten years later." Perhaps, says Thomas, "there should be an admissions quota for the solid citizens who rank in the middle...
...Whether med schools can actually foster sympathy and compassion in students is a matter of debate, but a number of educators feel that it is at least worth trying. At Brown, students "practice" medicine with professional actors who play patients. The scenes are videotaped, and students review them later to learn how to communicate better with those they treat. Columbia has taken a more academic approach by establishing the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, which, says Dean Tapley, will offer instruction on "how to deal with the patient, the patient's family and his whole life...
...School, the Engineering School, and the Nursing School--which prepare their students specifically for a career. Among the students in the College of Arts and Sciences--which includes more than 60 percent of the undergraduate population--there are complaints that the pre-professionalism affects more than just the pre-med or pre-law students...