The Yale Daily News reports that The American Association of Medical Colleges may revise requirements for medical school. The AAMC is considering requiring med school applicants to demonstrate competence in a checklist of skills rather than taking prerequisite courses. If the proposed rules are adopted, students will need to attain basic knowledge in eight areas, including quantitative reasoning and math, scientific inquiry, chemistry, and biological evolution.
The new requirements will rely on the MCAT to assess candidate competency and will encourage skills pertaining more to modern research, weighing biochemistry and statistics more than organic chemistry. A panel from the AAMC will review the MCAT over the next four years, as it may need to be rewritten to reflect these new changes. Universities, as well, are considering changes to their undergraduate curriculums in light of these revisions.
