160: How a Liberal Arts Degree as a Premed Might be the Best One
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Ryan is joined by Dr. Adele Wolfson, a biochemistry professor at Wellesley College. They discuss the liberal arts and how beneficial they can be to everything!
Links and Other Resources
- Full Episode Blog Post
- Dr. Wolfson’s essay “Science Matters”
- Dr. Wolfson’s study “The Liberal Education of STEM Majors”
- Related episode: Pros and Cons of the Liberal Arts for Premed Students
- Related episode: All About FlexMed (Formerly “HuMed,” Humanities in Medicine)
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| 0:50.0 | The Medical School Headquarters Podcast, Session Number 160. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello and welcome to the Medical School Headquarters |
| 1:05.7 | Podcast where we believe that collaboration not competition is key to your |
| 1:10.4 | pre-med success. I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this podcast we share with |
| 1:15.0 | you stories, encouragement, and information that you need to know to help guide you on your |
| 1:20.2 | path to becoming a physician. But today I have a very special guest joining me. It's |
| 1:28.4 | Adele Wolfson. She's a biochemistry teacher for the last umpteen years and we're going to talk all |
| 1:35.3 | about kind of the liberal arts degree and her take on why it's so important. Now I found Adele through an essay that she wrote and in this |
| 1:48.5 | essay she she talks about how there's this big kind of swing away from strictly science-based |
| 1:58.8 | students and having students that just can crush the MCAD and can crush all of their pre-Rex |
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