Are Student Research Requirements Redefining Medical Education? Or Will The Trend Come to An End?
A conference, entitled "Integrating Student Research into the Medical School Curriculum," will take place Friday, February 24, from 8:15 AM to 7:30 PM, at the New York Academy of Sciences.
David Muller, MD, Dean for Medical Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, says that the recent addition of mandatory research training in many medical school curriculums is the most important new development in medical education in the last five to seven years.
"A mandatory research requirement for medical students was something that until recently we only saw occasionally, but now it’s almost an expectation," Dr. Muller. "It’s beginning to determine how schools market themselves, and it’s affecting residency applications and how applicants decide where to apply."
A conference sponsored by Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation will bring together top experts in the field to discuss whether student research requirements have redefined medical education and raised the standards of rigor and excellence in medical schools.
The conference, entitled "Integrating Student Research into the Medical School Curriculum," will take place Friday, February 24, from 8:15 AM to 7:30 PM, at the New York Academy of Sciences’ downtown Manhattan offices at 250 Greenwich Street. Speakers will be from the National Institutes of Health as well as prominent medical schools across the country, including, Mount Sinai, UCSF, Stanford, Mayo, Yale, Brown, Pittsburgh, and Harvard.
More information about the conference, including a full agenda, can be found at:
http://www.nyas.org/Events/Detail.aspx?cid=5b92f641-e559-463e-94d6-e952d440f8d1
Topics for discussion at the conference include the pros and cons of mandatory medical student research for diverse types of medical careers, from translational scientist to rural primary care physician; the requirements for medical schools to provide a meaningful research experience, and; the moral impetus to offer research training, since tuition fees are used to fund institutional research infrastructure.
"Already one-third of Mount Sinai students take an extra year of medical school to gain research experience, which would have been unheard of until recently," said Dr. Muller. "Should it redefine how we train tomorrow’s physicians, or is it merely a passing trend?"
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