From Harvard Med School re: changing application requirements for 2016 matriculants (applying summer 2015): Currently, the time required for premedical undergraduate science preparation is substantial. Although expectations for scientific rigor at the undergraduate level are being increased, we do not intend to make the time commitment to science courses so burdensome that medical school candidacy would be limited to science majors/concentrators and that little time would be available in college to pursue other academically challenging scholarly avenues, the foundation for intellectual growth. Therefore, the ideal solution is one in which the current time commitment to premedical science courses is refocused on more relevant content, interdisciplinary when practical, that can be covered within the same time frame or a time frame only modestly expanded. The premedical curriculum should foster scholastic rigor, analytical thinking, quantitative assessment, and analyses of complex systems in human biology. In fact, an inculcation of scientific method and scientific rigor are deemed more important than the specific content of premedical science courses per se. We adhere to the important principle that the college years are not, and should not be, designed primarily to prepare students for professional schools. Instead, the college years should be devoted to a creative engagement in the elements of a broad, intellectually expansive liberal arts education.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 03:02:55 +0000
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