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Building a Better Physician — The Case for the New MCAT | Synapse

April 4, 2012Open Access

Building a Better Physician — The Case for the New MCAT

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Interview with Dr. Raynard Kington on the importance to medicine of the behavioral and social sciences. (00:00)Download Beginning in 2015, the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) will include sections on behavioral and social sciences and critical analysis and reasoning. These revisions reflect the recognition that behavioral and social factors play major roles in health and illness.

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Kaplan et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a19e44b05af093a17f6b5e2 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1113274

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