Kevin MD: How technology can save the craft of medicine
ISMMS's FlexMEd program successfully creates sensitive, compassionate -- and competent doctors.
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York has already begun to experiment with a program that allows liberal arts college students to gain early acceptance and skip the MCAT and undergraduate science course requirements altogether. It’s been so successful at creating students that can not only pick up the necessary science but also become more sensitive doctors, that last year Mount Sinai announced an expansion of the program. By 2015, about half of their incoming students will be admitted through this “FlexMed” program. And perhaps selecting students this way would obviate the need for what I considered remedial communications skills training in medical school, or the clunky instructions of the scientist’s scientist trying to teach communications — for example, in my first year of school, when a handout prompted us to “place your hand on the patient’s shoulder in a reassuring manner” during the physical exam. Yikes. Learn more.
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