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  Questioning the premedical paradigm : enhancing diversity in the medical profession a century after the Flexner report

  Donald A. Barr.

  Summary: "One hundred years ago, Abraham Flexner's report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada helped establish the modern paradigm of premedical and medical education. Barr's research finds the system of premedical education that evolved to be a poor predictor of subsequent clinical competency and professional excellence, while simultaneously discouraging many students from under represented minority groups or economically disadvantaged backgrounds from pursuing a career as a physician. Analyzing more than fifty years of research, Barr shows that many of the best prospects are not being admitted to medical schools with long-term adverse consequences for the U.S. medical profession."--BOOK JACKET.
  
  Contents:
  Who drops out of premed, and why?
  The historical origins of premedical education in the United States, 1873-1905
  A national standard for premedical education
  Premedical education and the prediction of professional performance
  Noncognitive factors that predict professional performance
  Efforts to increase the diversity of the medical profession
  Nontraditional programs of medical education and their success in training qualified physicians
  Reassessing the premedical paradigm
  Another way to structure premedical education.

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  Books: General Collection (Downstairs)

  2010

  R838 .B37 2010

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