A top medical school saves slots for students with no organic chem, physics or MCATs

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Try putting on your critical thinking glasses: the point of the Hume is that it produces practicing doctors, not researchers.

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<p>And what the NYTimes article actually said was:</p>

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But what surprised the authors the most, they said, was that humanities students were significantly more likely than their peers to devote a year to scholarly research (28 percent compared with 14 percent).

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<p>The HuMed program produces more students who take a scholarly year off as compared to traditional students. The only MD candidates who generally do more research in this school are the MD/PhDs students.</p>

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Indeed, reading between the lines it appears that Mt. Sinai would prefer more of these students go into to primary care…

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<p>There is also no particular push for HuMeds to go into any particular area or specialty. The NYT article notes that they’re more likely to go into psych or peds or OB/Gyn, but it’s not as if we don’t have HuMeds that go into surgery or anesthesia. What does it mean? Who knows. I’m sure if we broke down classes by gender or MPH degree holding or number of gym visits per week, we could also come up with some mildly interesting statistics about specialty choice.</p>

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So their summer versions of physics and organic aren’t like normal summer classes, they’re very basic? Maybe I misinterpreted shades_children wrong. Interesting.

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<p>What exactly do you mean by a “normal summer class”? The HuMed summer program covers some basic orgo and physics, and it’s nowhere near the amount of material one would get while taking Orgo I and Physics I over the summer at a 4-year university. They also do some shadowing in the hospital.</p>