medical school accepting students out of high school

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The University of Missouri - Kansas City has a six year BA/MD program so that

students can essentially skip college and go straight to med school without

having to take the MCAT. Read about it here:

http://research.med.umkc.edu/education/default.html

 

(Personally, I think it would be much nicer to skip public high school rather

than college.)

 

It will be interesting to see how it affects the public perception of TCM

educational standards if an increasing number of MD's start practicing after

only six years of educational rather than eight.

 

 

 

 

 

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> The University of Missouri - Kansas City has a six year BA/MD program so that

students

can essentially skip college and go straight to med school without having to

take the

MCAT.

 

Is this such a new thing? My university (Northwestern) has had a 7-year program

at least

since the '80s, when I went there. I have a physician friend who's in her late

30s who did a

similar program at Brown. Maybe *6* years is a recent development, but this sort

of

program is not new.

 

> It will be interesting to see how it affects the public perception of TCM

educational

standards if an increasing number of MD's start practicing after only six years

of

educational rather than eight.

 

I don't think enough people are aware of these kinds of trainings to make a

difference in

perception of MDs, IMO.

 

Sarah Rivkin

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