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MEDICAL EDUCATION


Changing MCAT Panel recommends changing admissions test


“This is an important recognition of the


increasingly complex roles of physicians.”


BY KEN ORTOLON


Future physicians may be taking a different test to get into medi- cal school than you did. A special committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)


is recommending major changes to the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) to more closely align its subject matter with the science knowledge needed to practice 21st century medicine. But while the proposed new MCAT increases the emphasis on biochemistry and


cellular and molecular biology, it also sharpens the focus on critical analysis and behavioral and social sciences that affect the more human side of medicine.


July 2011 TEXAS MEDICINE 47


CHRIS RYAN / GETTY IMAGES


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