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Speed Dating for Medical School Admissions
Although medical schools take every precaution in selecting benevolent individuals to be trained as physicians, an international study has revealed that 5% of doctors worldwide have recurrent issues that warrant disciplinary action by medical boards. These issues include violations of professionalism, unethical behavior, negligence, and in some cases criminal intent, reflective of deficiencies ...
متن کاملThe changing dynamic of medical school admissions.
Old-school pedagogues must be cringing. The Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and panel interviews dispatched to the dustbins of medical school history? Spaces set aside for those trained in the humanities? Have the caretakers of all that is good and time-honoured in the hallowed halls of medical schools gone entirely mad? There is little doubt that the medical school admissions landscape ...
متن کاملImplicit Racial Bias in Medical School Admissions.
PROBLEM Implicit white race preference has been associated with discrimination in the education, criminal justice, and health care systems and could impede the entry of African Americans into the medical profession, where they and other minorities remain underrepresented. Little is known about implicit racial bias in medical school admissions committees. APPROACH To measure implicit racial bi...
متن کاملEquity for "DREAMers" in Medical School Admissions.
Where We Are and How We Got Here In the autumn of 2012, the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine became the first medical school in the nation to amend its admissions policy to welcome applications from “DREAMers”—undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, i.e., prior to the age of 16, and have been raised and educated in the United States for mor...
متن کاملAssessing personal qualities in medical school admissions.
The authors analyze the challenges to using academic measures (MCAT scores and GPAs) as thresholds for admissions and, for applicants exceeding the threshold, using personal qualities for admission decisions; review the literature on using the medical school interview and other admission data to assess personal qualities of applicants; identify challenges of developing better methods of assessi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1970
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-197007000-00008