It’s on the MCAT for a Reason”
Premedical Students and the Perceived Utility of Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11063023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauren D Olsen (0000-0001-6012-867X, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 72-83 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0092055x15624744 |
| OpenAlex | W2313768803 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 30 |
Biomedical socialization and premed culture have been shown to promote reductionist and depersonalized approaches to understanding human difference, a serious problem in contemporary health care. In 2015, the Association for American Medical Colleges (AAMC) launched a new version of its Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) that included material from sociology, providing sociology departments an unprecedented opportunity to instruct premed students on contextualizing human difference and being sensitive to the diverse trajectories of people in the health care system. This article describes a large, public research institution’s introductory sociology course for premeds and draws on the students’ reflective writing to show how premeds valued the complexity, critical perspective, open-minded capacity, and conceptual approaches that sociology had to offer. In applying the sociological material to their experiences or impressions of the medical field, premed students felt that sociological instruction would help them become a more socially minded and critically engaged doctor
Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Higher education · Institution · Medical sociology · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Public health · Reductionism · Social science · Socialization · Sociological imagination · Sociological theory · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Diversity and Career in Medicine · Innovations in Medical Education · Medical Education and Admissions · Medicine · Nursing
The promise of a health professions education imagination
The empathic capital of pre-medical students
Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design & exploring the role(s) of capital
Intraprofessionalism and Peer-to-Peer Learning in American Medical Education
Beyond Competence
Understanding the Individual in Context
Do Sociology Courses Make More Empathetic Students? A Mixed-Methods Study of Empathy Change in Undergraduates
Building Computational Literacy in Undergraduate Sociology Using Software
Learning to See Like a Medical Sociologist
Integrating Experiential Learning in Introduction to Sociology
Equity in the Classroom and the Clinic
Preparing for Medical School
Linking Sociology Majors to Labor Market Success
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology
What are you signing up for
The moral dimension of professional socialization in the premedical years
Inclusion
Beyond Caring
Pain as Human Experience
From “Lists of Traits” to “Open-Mindedness”
Is premedical education dehumanizing? A literature review
Pushing and Pulling Emerging Adults Through College
You Have to Absorb Yourself in It”
Insiders and Outsiders
It Opened My Eyes”
Learning to Understand Inequality and Diversity
Learning to Interpret Cultural Meaning through an Etic Description of a Familiar Culture
Using Student Journals in Sociology Courses
Oppression, Power, Inequality
Cultural Sensitivity in Physician-Patient Relationships Perspectives of an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Low-income Primary Care Patients
Considering the Impact of Racial Stigmas and Science Identity
The sociological imagination
Managing Emotions in Medical School
Understanding the science experiences of successful women of color
What must I do to succeed
Cadaver Stories and the Emotional Socialization of Medical Students
The Myth of Cut-Throats Among Premedical Students
Problems and Prospects in the Study of Physician-Patient Interaction
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |