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Direct linkElizabeth Culatta; Melissa Powell-Williams; Kim Davies – Teaching Sociology, 2024
Educators have recently highlighted the importance of social science courses for students entering the medical field. This has led to the inclusion of sociological theories and concepts on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), a requirement for any student seeking formal medical training. Using open-ended survey data responses provided by…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, College Entrance Examinations, Minority Group Students, College Applicants
Download full textNavarre, Berengaria; Perez, Norma A.; Smith, Sarah Toombs – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
Based on a successful five-week summer program, we constructed an online alternative to prepare Hispanic students to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). We used input from student premed advisors, students, a faculty mentor, a Verbal Reasoning coach, and the program administrator. Online activities were provided to support the student…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Medical Education, Medical Schools, Hispanic American Students
Agbor-Baiyee, W. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2009
Purpose: Orientation facilitates the transition to a new academic program to meet the need of new students to know programmatic items such as academic expectations, courses, policies and procedures. We used a problem based learning (PBL) approach to introduce our students to the expectations of our intensive 10-week Medical College Admission Test…
Descriptors: Premedical Students, Medical Schools, Disadvantaged, Standardized Tests
