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\"davidmullerhumed\"<\/a>Dr. David Muller, dean of medical education at Mount Sinai, believes that including in each medical school class some students who have a strong background in the humanities makes traditional science students better doctors, too.<\/p>\n

You can’t tell by looking which students at Mount Sinai’s school of medicine in New York City were traditional pre-meds as undergraduates and which weren’t. And that’s exactly the point.<\/p>\n

Most of the class majored in biology or chemistry, crammed for the medical college admission test and got flawless grades and scores.<\/p>\n

But a growing percentage came through a humanities-oriented program at Mount Sinai known as HuMed<\/a>. As undergraduates, they majored in things like English or history or medieval studies. And though they got good grades, too, they didn’t take the MCAT<\/a>, because Mount Sinai guaranteed them admission after their sophomore year of college.\u00a0 Read more..http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2015\/05\/27\/407967899\/a-top-medical-school-revamps-requirements-to-lure-english-majors?sc=17&f=2&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dr. David Muller, dean of medical education at Mount Sinai, believes that including in each medical school class some students who have a strong background in the humanities makes traditional science students better doctors, too. You can’t tell by looking which students at Mount Sinai’s school of medicine in New York City were traditional pre-medsContinue reading “A Top Medical School Revamps Requirements To Lure English Majors”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-medicine","category-opportunities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":314,"url":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2015\/05\/28\/one-med-schools-commitment-to-accepting-english-humanities-majors\/","url_meta":{"origin":578,"position":0},"title":"One Med School’s Commitment to Accepting English & Humanities Majors","author":"Dr. Joseph E. 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