Would you rather have a doctor who understands your pain or one who can fix it?
The New York Times article, “Getting into Med School without the Hard Sciences” reports on the Mt. Sinai medical school program that precludes organic chemistry, physics, and that old barrier – the MCATs….”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.
The article notes that these medical students are
“…likely to train as psychiatrists (14 percent compared with 5.6 percent of their classmates) and somewhat more likely — though less so than Dr. Kase had expected — to go into primary care fields, like pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology….
Now let’s see how they’re doing 5 and 10 years down the road.”
The Mount Sinai study did not answer the question.
At least they don’t become surgeons. Zach Braff from Scrubs is going off-Broadway – but that’s another story.
Dr. House is still available.