Questioning the premedical paradigm : enhancing diversity in the medical profession a century after the Flexner report / / Donald A. Barr
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| Autore: |
Barr Donald A
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| Titolo: |
Questioning the premedical paradigm : enhancing diversity in the medical profession a century after the Flexner report / / Donald A. Barr
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 610.71/173 |
| Soggetto topico: | Premedical education - United States |
| Medical education - United States | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Questioning the Premedical Paradigm |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-9840-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910524675903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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