Med Schools Disavow Classics Programs' Claim as Road to M.D.'s

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It's all sounds fine, glitzy, glamorous to go against the usual.. but wonder who would folks choose, when you are an operating room ? a choice of a doctor who majored in greek myhtology versus biological science.. ?? ahem !!

Sparatacus of OR 6:51PM December 13, 2011

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Judith P Hallett of MD 8:11PM December 07, 2011

Talk about "Greek to me..." A curious and strained quasi-hit job on Classics. Slow day?

It may well be that the Princeton Review needs to update its comments from the AAMC. Still, how does Fobert's suggestion that Med schools look for "well-rounded students" invalidate a the Bloomington Classics department's very modest claim on their website that professional schools "have traditionally sought out students who display a wide range of intellectual curiosity, maturity, discipline." (You don't need a Ph.D. or an M.D. to see that it doesn't, but perhaps the website has changed since this article was published?)

Furthermore, whereas one Med school *admissions* officer may disavow Classics as a as a "road to an M.D." [also "just an anecdote," I might add] she hardly denies that such a path is possible. Moreover, Drs. Muller and Kase at Mt. Sinai showed that "[s]tudents without the traditional premedical preparation [i.e., in the liberal arts and humanities, among which is Classics] performed at a level equivalent to their premedical classmates."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20671464

quare of CT 4:51PM December 07, 2011

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