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

by Donald A. Barr

Book Overview

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 current state of premedical education in the United States.

One hundred years ago, Abraham Flexner's report on Medical Education in the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801894166
• ISBN13: 9780801894169
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"