Questioning the premedical paradigm
Subtitle: enhancing diversity in the medical profession a century after the Flexner report
By: Donald A. Barr.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801894169
Subjects: Premedical education -- United States; Education, Premedical -- United States; Cultural Diversity -- United States; Physicians -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who drops out of premed, and why?; title: The historical origins of premedical education in the United States, 1873-1905; title: A national standard for premedical education; title: Premedical education and the prediction of professional performance; title: Noncognitive factors that predict professional performance; title: Efforts to increase the diversity of the medical profession; title: Nontraditional programs of medical education and their success in training qualified physicians; title: Reassessing the premedical paradigm; title: Another way to structure premedical education.