Challenging Traditional Premedical Requirements as Predictors of Success in Medical School: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Humanities and Medicine Program

Müller, David; Kase, Nathan

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“…This program requires students to major in the social sciences or humanities and provides some additional academic support prior to the beginning of medical school classes. This approach was recently assessed (Muller and Kase 2010) with the finding that students in the program had similar outcomes to those with a traditional pre-medical background. One interesting finding was that the non-traditional pre-meds tended to choose more general practice specialties than their traditional counterparts.…”

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EvoS: A Prescription for What Ails Pre-Medical Education?

Waldo

Greagor

2011

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Pre-medical students are certainly a widely varied group, with different motivations and experiences, different skills sets and interests. However, they often tend to approach their undergraduate education as a necessary evil that they must endure in order to achieve their ultimate goals. This article summarizes recent literature addressing some of the questions that have been raised regarding premedical education programs. Are students prepared for the intellectual, emotional, and even physical challenges of medical training? What deficiencies are commonly seen in entering medical students? What are students' perceptions of how well their pre-medical studies helped them? Many of these studies have resulted in a call for more science training, while some have advocated for less, but with an enhanced focus on humanistic studies. We supply a brief outline of our Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) program and reflect upon how participation in this program can enhance pre-medical students' education. Importantly, we argue that EvoS can expand students' depth of understanding of science, as well as nurture their ability to think about the needs of their patients and the context of their medical practice.A student showed us a neat trick. He wrote a single word on a piece of paper and asked some of his fellow students to simply read it out loud. The students were all of the premedical persuasion, doing well in their coursework and engaged in their studies. The word was UNIONIZED. Surprisingly, the majority of the students said "un-ion-ized," rather than "union-ized."For those that are not sure, "un-ion-ized" is not a wordit has no meaning. But these students picked out the "ion" part of the word as being most meaningful, rather than seeing a relatively commonly used word. The term "ion" is very important in chemistry, but it generally is not part of "normal" conversations. Why did they do this? What does it mean about them and the education they are receiving? How does this relate to their future careers in medicine? What is Wrong with Pre-Medical Education?When approached by prospective students about the quality of the pre-medical major at our college, one must respond by saying that we do not have a pre-med major. In fact, most colleges and universities do not, and this is particularly true for colleges that focus on a liberal arts education, like our own. Instead, pre-med is a "state of mind." It is a selfidentification and it really is not a valid designation until one is actually enrolled in medical school. Somebody that takes pre-med courses but does not gain entrance into medical school is not truly pre-med.Pre-med students are goal-oriented by definition. There are particular lists of classes, experiences and tests that these students must complete to achieve their goal. There are as many motivators that result in the production of a pre-med mentality as there are students that identify as such. But, in our experience, there are usually some aspects of family or cultural respect for the career, glamorization of doctor...

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Section: What Can Be Done About Pre-med Education?mentioning

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EvoS: A Prescription for What Ails Pre-Medical Education?

Waldo

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2011

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“…12,14-32 All but 3 of the 20 were published before 2000. We categorized data abstracted from these 20 articles across five themes: an American experience, academic performance, clinical performance, residency 12,14 HuMed is designed as an SSH-specific admission stream, offering guaranteed medical school admission (contingent on successful completion of an undergraduate degree) to some second-and third-year students majoring in the humanities or social sciences. Students are required to maintain a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.5 in addition to earning a "B" grade in biology and general chemistry.…”

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Is Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Premedical Education Marginalized in the Medical School Admission Process? A Review and Contextualization of the Literature

2014

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“…Um artigo americano que discute a formação de alunos de medicina egressos em suas universidades, mostra que há uma "síndrome pré-médica" dentre os egressos que não possuem contato com conteúdos da área de ciências humanas e sociais, limitando sua visão sobre o ser humano como um todo (Muller & Kase, 2010).…”

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Diversidade sexual e relações profissionais: concepções de médicos e enfermeiros

2016

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ResumoObjetivou-se analisar os discursos de profi ssionais de saúde, médicos e enfermeiros, quanto as suas concepções acerca da diversidade sexual. Para tanto, desenvolveu-se uma pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, sob a perspectiva sócio-histórica, sendo a psicologia social o fundo metodológico, para organização e análise dos discursos. Entrevistaram-se quatorze médicos e enfermeiros que atuam na cidade de Campo Grande, MS. Identifi caram-se duas categorias representativas da experiência dos profi ssionais: (a) Refl etindo sobre as diversidades sexuais e (b) Entendendo a relação entre o profi ssional de saúde hetero e homossexual. Da primeira emergiram os temas, "criando um conceito para diversidades sexuais", "concepção pessoal de diversidades sexuais", "as reações diante do paciente pertencente às diversidades" e "como administrar as mudanças exigidas". Da segunda,"a discriminação e o preconceito", "a aceitação", "a dicotomia nas relações profi ssionais", "os estereótipos" e "a busca pelo respeito e igualdade". Conceitos sedimentados sobre os papeis de gênero ainda fi guram nos discursos dos profi ssionais de saúde, fato que fomenta a legitimação da heteronormatividade. Discursos menosprezando as expressões de liberdade buscadas pela população LGBT são frequentes nas falas dos profi ssionais tanto homo quanto heterossexuais. Apesar de se sentirem aceitos em seus ambientes de trabalho, os profi ssionais de saúde homossexuais ocultam sua vida pessoal. Palavras-chave:Saúde, comportamento sexual, prática profi ssional, relação profi ssional-paciente, preconceito. Sexual Diversity and Professional Relationships: Conceptions of Doctors and Nurses AbstractThis study analyzed the opinions of healthcare professionals, physicians and nurses on their conceptions of sexual diversity. To do so, we developed a qualitative research under the socio-historical perspective. We interviewed fourteen doctors and nurses who work in the city of Campo Grande, 1 Endereço para correspondência: Rua Plutônio, 56, Coophafé, Campo Grande, MS, Brasil 79021-140. Fone:

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Challenging Traditional Premedical Requirements as Predictors of Success in Medical School: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Humanities and Medicine Program

Abstract: Students without the traditional premedical preparation performed at a level equivalent to their premedical classmates.

Cited by 73 publications

References 12 publications

EvoS: A Prescription for What Ails Pre-Medical Education?

EvoS: A Prescription for What Ails Pre-Medical Education?

Is Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Premedical Education Marginalized in the Medical School Admission Process? A Review and Contextualization of the Literature

Diversidade sexual e relações profissionais: concepções de médicos e enfermeiros

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