Word: six-year
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...another 450 planning to enroll, 75% of them would-be doctors. Rejected by the 116 highly selective U.S. medical schools, which accepted only 15,000 applicants last year out of about 40,000. these Americans have been converging on Italy in hopes of doing well enough during the required six-year Italian stint to transfer to a school back home. "We would all have preferred to go to an American medical school," admits Steve Husecki, 26. a graduate of Indiana University now studying at Rome University. "It's a long way to come, and you have to learn another...
...they would make 440,000 air-bag-equipped cars starting in fall 1979. But it did not end the nine-year debate over the bags. Ralph Nader, who together with other consumerists and the Allstate Insurance Co. had lobbied hard for the bags, was disappointed by the four-to six-year lead time granted automakers to install the devices. Sniffed Nader: "If the industry can build a Mustang in 30 months, it could be speeded up to install air bags and belts...
...pass tough exams. Beginning next year, all new family practitioners will also have to complete three-year residencies. Now available at more than 300 hospitals, these residencies expose the fledgling F.P.s to a wide range of training-from basics of surgery and cardiology to obstetrics. Every six years they will be re-examined to make sure they have kept up with medical progress. In the first such recertification test last fall, TIME has learned, 4% of the doctors flunked and will have to be tested again before they can be recertified. Finally, in the six-year intervals between boards, they...
...obvious. Though European experts give Rumanian medical training high marks, admission requirements for Americans are relatively lenient. Until this year, when the Rumanians began demanding at least two years of preparatory college. Americans were accepted directly out of secondary school. It was this lure that attracted Raoul Mendelovice at age 17-immediately after his graduation from New York City's highly regarded Bronx High School of Science with an impressive 97% average. Now in his second year of the six-year Rumanian medical program, Mendelovice notes that he will be finishing up just when his friends back...
...current reform efforts began in March, when a panel of freshmen voted to break a six-year boycott of the CRR by nominating four freshmen to the committee...