Peer Review, Fall 2012

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Fall2012Vol.14No.4

Essential Learning Outcomes, the New MCAT, and Curricular Change

This issue focuses on the new changes to the MCAT, which focus more on broad integrative learning outcomes and competencies than on specific course requirements. Changes in the MCAT reinforce an urgent need for significant curricular revision, especially to focus more on competencies within lower-division pre-health coursework, and to encourage undergraduate students to make creative connections between and across disciplines and divisions.

Table of Contents

From the Editor

Analysis

Scientific Thinking, Integrative Reasoning Skills, and the New MCAT

Carol Geary Schneider, AAC&U

Undergraduate Preparation for the Health Professions and the Revised Medical College Admissions Test

Robert C. Hilborn, American Association of Physics Teachers; Catherine R. Lucey, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; and Richard K. Riegelman, The George Washington University

Scientific Thinking and Integrative Reasoning Skills (STIRS): Essential Outcomes for Medical Education and for Liberal Education

Richard K. Riegelman, The George Washington University, and Kevin Hovland, AAC&U

The New Social and Behavioral MCAT Requirements: Inspired Innovation, Missed Opportunity, or Both?

Nat B. Frazer and Michael P. Twohig; both of Utah State University

Practice

Faculty Leadership in Premedical Education

Ann S. Ferren, AAC&U, and Peter M. Ferren, University of California,San Francisco School of Medicine

Implications of the MCAT Changes for Other Health Professions

Richard W. Valachovic, American Dental Education Association

Preparing for the New MCAT: The Perspective of Advisors

Ruth O. Bingham, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Julie Chanatry, Colgate University; Carol Baffi-Dugan, Tufts University; Beverley Childress, Auburn University; and Susan A. Maxwell; all of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions

Reality Check

Essential Outcomes, Essential Inputs

Cynthia Bauerle, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and David Hanauer, University of Pittsburgh and Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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