Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Barr, Donald A.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

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Details

Description

xii, 226 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"One hundred years ago, Abraham Flexners report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada helped establish the modern paradigm of premedical and medical education. Barr's research finds the system of premedical education that evolved to be a poor predictor of subsequent clinical competency and professional excellence, while simultaneously discouraging many students from under represented minority groups or economically disadvantaged backgrounds from pursuing a career as a physician. Analyzing more than fiftyyears of research, Barr shows that many of the best prospects are not being admitted to medical schools. with long-term adverse consequences for the U.S. medical profession."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Premedical education > United States
• Physicians
• Cultural Diversity
• Education, Premedical
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Who Drops Out of Premed, and Why? -- 2. The Historical Origins of Premedical Education in the United States, 1873-1905 -- 3. A National Standard for Premedical Education -- 4. Premedical Education and the Prediction of Professional Performance -- 5. Noncognitive Factors That Predict Professional Performance -- 6. Efforts to Increase the Diversity of the Medical Profession -- 7. Nontraditional Programs of Medical Education and Their Success in Training Qualified Physicians -- 8. Reassessing the Premedical Paradigm -- 9. Another Way to Structure Premedical Education.

ISBN

• 9780801894169 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0801894166 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009020308

OCLC

• ocn338288711
• 338288711
• SCSB-8857818

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries