Education, Premedical
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

How leaky is the health career pipeline? Minority student achievement in college gateway courses.

30 May 2009 PURPOSE: To determine whether underrepresented minority (URM) students receive lower grades than do non-URM students in college prehealth gateway courses; the extent to which lower grade performance might be explained by the differences in ... Read more...

Learning styles of physiology students interested in the health professions.

27 Feb 2009 Student learning may be classified according to the sensory modalities by which one prefers to take in information. One such classification scheme uses the VARK instrument, which categorizes learning preferences as visual (V), auditory (A), ... Read more...

Developing a Korean communication skills attitude scale: comparing attitudes between Korea and the West.

27 Feb 2009 OBJECTIVES: We aimed to develop a Korean version of the Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS) created by Rees et al. in order to elucidate the positive and negative aspects of Korean pre-medical and medical students' attitudes towards ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Education, Premedical'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Groups promote "key competencies" in training for premed and medical students. 17 Aug 2009
• Science for future physicians. 3 Jun 2009
• How leaky is the health career pipeline? Minority student achievement in college gateway courses. 30 May 2009
• More about premedical education. 30 May 2009
• Learning styles of physiology students interested in the health professions. 27 Feb 2009
• Developing a Korean communication skills attitude scale: comparing attitudes between Korea and the West. 27 Feb 2009
• The usefulness of the GlideScope video laryngoscope in the education of conventional tracheal intubation for the novice. 30 Jan 2009
• Medical student debt--is there a limit? 16 Dec 2008
• Perspective: "How to fix the premedical curriculum" revisited. 29 Nov 2008
• Quixotic medicine: physical and economic laws perilously disregarded in health care and medical education. 29 Nov 2008
• Premedical education. 29 Nov 2008
• Premedical education. 29 Nov 2008
• Premedical education. 29 Nov 2008
• Premedical education. 29 Nov 2008
• Patient-based cultural competency curriculum for pre-health professionals. 30 Oct 2008
• Developing an online prematriculation orientation program and its relation to student performance in the first class taken in medical school. 29 Sep 2008
• Effectiveness of a premedical postbaccalaureate program in improving medical college admission test scores of underrepresented minority and disadvantaged students. 30 Aug 2008
• Relevance and rigor in premedical education. 15 Jul 2008
• Working with schools in deprived areas to raise aspirations for medicine and other healthcare science careers. 30 May 2008
• Toward a sound philosophy of premedical education. 29 Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Education, Premedical'

Definition: Preparatory education meeting the requirements for admission to medical school.

Descriptor UI: D004516

Alternative terms: Education, Premedical; Premedical Education;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I02.316;

History Note: 66

Technical Notes: DF: EDUC PREMED