The students apply in their sophomore or junior years in college and agree to major in humanities or social science, rather than the hard sciences. If they are admitted, they are required to take only basic biology and chemistry, at a level many students accomplish through Advanced Placement courses in high school.
They forgo organic chemistry, physics and calculus — though they get abbreviated organic chemistry and physics courses during a summer boot camp run by Mount Sinai. They are exempt from the MCAT. Instead, they are admitted into the program based on their high school SAT scores, two personal essays, their high school and early college grades and interviews. {bolding mine}
High school level sciences should be enough for your child's pediatrician, don't you think? I'm glad we're not holding back people who suck at chemistry; it just wasn't fair. And calculus, for Pete's sake? Why should a medical doctor be required to think?
“There’s no question,” Dr. Kase said. “The default pathway is: Well, how did they do on the MCAT? How did they do on organic chemistry? What was their grade-point average?”
“That excludes a lot of kids,” said Dr. Kase, who founded the Mount Sinai program in 1987 when he was dean of the medical school, and who is now dean emeritus and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology. “But it also diminishes; it makes science into an obstacle rather than something that is an insight into the biology of human disease.”
Exactly! These newly minted doctors will be well-suited to administer ObamaCare. They can hug you and offer you a tissue as they explain that you're number 937 on the waiting list.
Old paradigm: Doctors rule!
New paradigm: Sick? Trust a nurse.
Ms. Adler said she was inspired by her freshman study abroad in Africa. "I didn't want to waste a class on physics, or waste a class on orgo," she said. "The social determinants of health are so much more pervasive than the immediate biology of it."
ReplyDeleteRight. Because why blame germs for disease when you can blame racist republicans?
Heh. But it won't be funny when these nitwits graduate and pretend to be medical doctors.
ReplyDeleteI think bigel was right. We ARE doomed.