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Questioning the Premedical Paradigm
Donald A. Barr
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Description for Questioning the Premedical Paradigm
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. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8, 8 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JNM; MBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
This book raises fundamental questions about the propriety of continuing to use a premedical curriculum developed more than a century ago to select students for training as future physicians for the twenty-first century. In it, Dr. Donald A. Barr examines the historical origins, evolution, and current state of premedical education in the United States. 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 ... Read more
This book raises fundamental questions about the propriety of continuing to use a premedical curriculum developed more than a century ago to select students for training as future physicians for the twenty-first century. In it, Dr. Donald A. Barr examines the historical origins, evolution, and current state of premedical education in the United States. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801894169
SKU
V9780801894169
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About Donald A. Barr
Donald A. Barr, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor at Stanford University in the Departments of Pediatrics and Sociology. He is the author of Introduction to U.S. Health Policy, second edition, and Health Disparities in the United States, both also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Questioning the Premedical Paradigm
"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., George Washington University and ... Read more