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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524675903321

Autore

Barr Donald A

Titolo

Questioning the premedical paradigm : enhancing diversity in the medical profession a century after the Flexner report / / Donald A. Barr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8018-9840-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

610.71/173

Soggetti

Premedical education - United States

Medical education - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.