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Originally Posted by SALYBOW
The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) has four sections: Physical Sciences, Verbal Reasoning, Writing Sample and Biological Sciences. The exam tests students knowledge of biology, inorganic and organic chemistry, and physics, as well as critical thinking and general writing skills. Because the MCAT includes sections that test your ability to reason verbally and to synthesize and analyze concepts and ideas through writing, you'll want to be sure to take one year of English Composition as well as classes in humanities and social sciences, in addition to the requisite science courses suggested for exam proficiency.
In order to take these classes successfully Math through Calc III is needed.
It goesn't sound like one can eliminate the four years of college. My son majored in Theology and they loved that as a pre-major. They told him he would really use it. Thay also liked that he took logic.  |
Thanks for the explanation. It certainly sounds like a high powered curriculum. But wouldn't it be fair to ask if it's working? I would think the underlying essence of it all is whether or not patients are being helped. If not, what is the point of all that schooling?
Research has found that, overall, annual physicals prevent nothing, according to a Daily Sun column by David Lipschitz M.D. This is
the overall result you get when you compare
benefits versus harm caused by conventional medicine.
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Conventional wisdom says: Don't change the requirements for a medical degree. But consider the following:
800,000 deaths per year are caused by conventional medicine. It's the leading cause of death and injury in the U.S. (Source: "Death By Medicine", Copyright 2010)