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From: Jose Cueto Jr. <jcue...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Subject: Fwd: FW: INFO: FW: MCAT Changes
To: alberto roxas <upcm...@gmail.com>, Dean Medicine <uer...@yahoo.com>

Dear Dean Bert and Dean Retta,

Sending you an email from Page Morahan who is the Program Director of FAIMER, and the email contains what are to be incorporated changes in the US MCAT.

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From: Page Morahan <psmo...@att.net>
Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:56 AM
Subject: FW: INFO: FW: MCAT Changes
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I thought that some of you might be interested in the changes in the U.S. MCAT exam, which is a major piece medical schools use to assess ability of applicants for medical school.

Note the increased emphasis on social and behavioral sciences, critical analysis, scientific inquiry and reasoning skills.

Page

From: Joe Volsch [mailto:jvo...@aamc.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:59 AM
To: Morahan, Page S
Subject: MCAT Changes

All,

Last week, AAMC’s Board of Directors approved the MR5 committee’s recommendations for the 2015 MCAT exam. The changes are designed to help students prepare for a rapidly-changing health care system and an evolving body of medical knowledge while addressing the needs of a growing, aging, and increasingly-diverse population. Among the changes are added emphasis on the social and behavioral sciences, scientific inquiry and reasoning skills, and introductory biochemistry. The critical analysis and reasoning skills section will ask students to analyze information in passages from a wide range of social sciences and humanities disciplines, including ethics and philosophy, cross-cultural studies, and population health.

To learn more about the new exam, go to https://www.aamc.org/newsroom/newsreleases/273712/120216.html

There you’ll find a video of Dr. Kirch discussing the changes, a recording of the press teleconference, and resources for you and your colleagues. For detail about the content of the future exam, see: https://www.aamc.org/mcat2015/preview.pdf

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