College preparation for a medical career in the United States.

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Purpose

A college degree is required to enter medical school in the United States. A remarkably high percentage of students entering college have pre-medical aspirations but relatively few end up as medical students. As an "applied science", education about medicine is usually thought to be beyond the purview of a liberal arts curriculum. Students therefore receive little education about a medical career, or information about the many alternative careers in health science. Instead, they take courses for Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) preparation and medical school application prerequisites in biology, chemistry, physics, and math. These classes give them little insight into a real medical career. The current report considers this mismatch between student needs in health scie

SUBMITTER: Malvitz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10863898 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature