182: Should the Premed Path Be Reworked?
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Ryan discusses an article that was published, written by a Harvard medical student, about retiring the traditional premed path. Hint - Ryan doesn't agree!
Links and Other Resources:
FlexMed program at ICAHN School of Medicine
Scientific American Blog article, It’s Time to Retire Premed
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| 0:49.8 | The pre-med year, session number 182. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to the pre-med year. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello and welcome to the pre-med years where we believe that collaboration not |
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| 1:37.0 | In this group a lot of people have been sharing something recently |
| 1:41.0 | about an article that went that was published on the Scientific American |
| 1:49.4 | blog and it's a guest blog from a medical student and the title of the article is It's Time to Retire |
| 1:57.9 | Pre-Med with the subtitle of the existing system of pre-medical education is broken and needs to be fixed. |
| 2:06.0 | That's what I'm going to talk about today, this article. |
| 2:09.8 | So I'll have a link to this specific blog post in the show notes for this specific |
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