In recent decades, scientific knowledge has changed dramatically,once-settled scientific principles have been replaced by moresophisticated concepts and entirely new disciplines, and parallelchanges have occurred in medical practice and health care delivery.In the face of these new realities, medical school curriculahave had to adapt. Yet despite these sweeping changes, includingthe permeation of most areas of medicine by molecular and cellularbiology and genetics, requirements for admission to medicalschool have remained virtually unchanged for many decades.
Ironically, though many of today's high-school students arelearning advanced science and mathematics that my generationstudied in college . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Dienstag is the dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School, Boston.
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