Challenging traditional premedical requirements as predictors of success in medical school: The mount sinai school of medicine humanities and medicine program

Academic Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1378-1383

  Muller, David ^a,b   Kase, Nathan ^b,c  

^a Departments of Medical Education and Medicine   (Australia)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c and Reproductive Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROCEDURES; SCIENCE; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

APTITUDE; EDUCATION, PREMEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANITIES; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SCIENCE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 77955310164     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181dbf22a     Document Type: Article

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