Questioning the Premedical Paradigm Enhancing Diversity in the Medical Profession a Century after the Flexner Report

• Main Author: Barr, Donald A. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2010
• Subjects: Higher & further education, tertiary education
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book raises fundamental questions about the propriety of continuing to use a premedical curriculum developed more than a century ago to select students for training as future physicians for the twenty-first century. In it, Dr. Donald A. Barr examines the historical origins, evolution, and curre...