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Changing Premedical Requirements
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To the Editor: The American College of Physicians (ACP) has recently developed and advocated for proposals for redesign of medical education for future internists.1 In addition, it has been working with other internal medicine stakeholder organizations to move the reform proposals toward implementation.2 We were therefore pleased to see the Commentary by Dr Emanuel3 on changing premed requirements and the medical curriculum. His proposed changes are aligned with the ACP's recent position paper on redesigning training for internal medicine1 and with other ACP position statements that include recommendations about premedical education.
Current premedical requirements reflect tradition rather than any particular educational rationale. We agree that the specific changes for premedical requirements recommended by Emanuel would better serve future physicians and the needs of their patients, and we are fully supportive of his proposals. A fundamental knowledge of communication, bioethics, medical statistics, fundamentals of health care finance and law, and management . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Virginia U. Collier, MD
Christiana Care Health System
Newark, Del
Lawrence G. Smith, MD
North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System
Great Neck, NY
Steven E. Weinberger, MD
sweinberger@acponline.org
American College of Physicians
Philadelphia, Pa
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