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- Title
How to Fix the Premedical Curriculum-Another Try.
- Authors
Ratzan, Richard M.
- Abstract
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews the case made by physician-essayist Lewis Thomas that all prospective medical students be required to know classical Greek language and literature before medical school acceptance and broadens the argument, calling on medical school admissions committees to require an undergraduate major in humanities as a basis for medical education.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PREMEDICAL education; MEDICAL education; PREMEDICAL students; MEDICAL school entrance requirements; MEDICAL students; THOMAS, Lewis, 1913-1993; CULTURE; CURRICULUM; HUMANITIES; LANGUAGE &; languages; SCHOOL entrance requirements
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2019, Vol 322, Issue 8, p710
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2019.11480