Medical Academic Advancement Program
University of Virginia School of
Medicine
Office of Student Academic Support
Health Sciences Center, Box 446
Charlottesville, VA 22909
(804) 924-2189
Washington
Postbaccalaureate Program
Premed/Predent Department of
Biology
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 296-5486
West Virginia
Postbaccalaureate Program
Glenville College
Division of Science and Math
200 High Street
Glenville, WV 26351
(304) 462-4126
Wisconsin
Postbaccalaureate Program
University of Wisconsin--Madison
Graduate Education
1656 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-1008
Postbaccalaureate Program
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Certificate of Premed Studies
Holton Hall 130
Milwaukee, WI 53201
(414) 229-3922
HUMANISTIC ASPECTS OF PREMEDICAL EDUCATION
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Aside from the intellectual and technical
challenges that medical education presents,
there are a variety of other considerations
that must be faced by professional school stu-
dents. Among these are the realizations
that:
1. There is a great diversity in the patients
that one sees. One is not surrounded by
a homogeneous population, but by all types of
people--rich and poor, young
and old, educated and illiterate.
2. There are emotional as well as physical
factors to be dealt with in patient care,
including crises in the lives of
patients.
3. The issues of pain and suffering, of dying
and death are aspects of life that are
distant from the young, healthy student who
must learn to cope with them in a
sympathetic, although somewhat detached,
manner.
4. There are ethical issues to consider that
cannot be defined scientifically, such as
who shall be born, who shall live, who shall
die.
Medical school does not adequately prepare one
for the aforementioned problems
and thus it is the premedical experiences and
training that tend to mold one's values on
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