The Narrow Gauge

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Many more students apply to medical schools than can be accommodated. This effect may worsen if medical school enrollments are decreased to prevent a "doctor glut."1 This surfeit of applicants has given admissions committees great power (not necessarily desired or acknowledged) over the choices of undergraduates and the character of future physicians.Lewis Thomas has asserted that this power has had undesirable effects on undergraduate education and will lead to infelicitous consequences for the profession.2 He has noted an unwarranted preference for selecting those with scientific, as opposed to "humanistic," skills. There is evidence that such a bias exists: Funkenstein . . .
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