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- Title
Groups say med school training must evolve.
- Authors
Cressey, Daniel
- Abstract
The reports on the call by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to incorporate evolution into medical education. According to the group of leading researchers, medical training must adapt to include coursework that covers evolutionary biology. It states that a key medical school competency should show an understanding of how evolution by natural selection leads to the diversity of life on earth.
- Subjects
MEDICAL school curriculum; MEDICAL education; STUDY &; teaching of natural selection; BIOLOGICAL evolution education; ASSOCIATION of American Medical Colleges; HOWARD Hughes Medical Institute; BIODIVERSITY
- Publication
Nature Medicine, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 12, p1338
- ISSN
1078-8956
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nm1209-1338a