Questioning the Premedical Paradigm - Enhancing Diversity in Medical Profession a Century After Flexner

Informationen zum Autor Donald A. Barr, MD, PhD , is professor emeritus at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics. He is the author of Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity , and the Social Determinants of Health; Introduction to Biosocial Medicine: The Social, Psychological, and Biological Determinants of Human Behavior and Well-Being; and Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy . Klappentext As this provocative and timely volume documents, the science and math prerequisites for medical school admission triggered by Flexner's report have long since outlived their salience. What's worse, they are serving to dissuade countless students with precisely the backgrounds, temperament, and commitment we seek in our physicians from pursuing their dream. --Jordan J. Cohen, M.D. Zusammenfassung This historical and cultural analysis of premedical education in the United States is the crucial first step in questioning the appropriateness of continuing a hundred-year-old! empirically dubious pedagogical model for the twenty-first century.

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• Authors: Donald A Barr, Donald A. Barr, Donald A. (Associate Professor and Coordinat Barr, Donald A. (Associate Professor and Coordinator Barr
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2010
• EAN: 9780801894169
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9416-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Education & Training, Medical profession, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Medical study & revision guides & reference material, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher