Questioning the premedical paradigm enhancing diversity in the medical profession a century after the Flexner report
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
c2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423015006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
