You think high school is a pressure cooker now? Imagine if med school was riding on it?

Americans sometimes have rose-colored glasses about higher ed in other countries, but tracking is sometimes rigid and locked. Where my family is from, if you’ve been tracked for a trade in the equivalent of middle school, there is no way to do anything else. That’s it.

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Anonymous wrote:Do your reseaerch as some US colleges do this. Brown University has PLME (8 year automatic admission to its medical school). I think Penn State and Thomas Jefferson Medical School still has this too (7 years for undergrad/MD degrees).

There are others...of course you have to keep up the minimum GPA etc.

George Washington.Univ has a 7 year BS + MD. Not for the weak.

I work with MS1s at GW. There are very, very few of these actually attending the med school. I don't know if that is because they don't admit many into that program, or if it is because a lot of those who are admitted decide they don't want med school or don't want it at GW, or what. It's possible that there are more than I realize, but unlikely. Also, fwiw, our M1 class was significantly smaller this year.

Anonymous wrote:Do your reseaerch as some US colleges do this. Brown University has PLME (8 year automatic admission to its medical school). I think Penn State and Thomas Jefferson Medical School still has this too (7 years for undergrad/MD degrees).

There are others...of course you have to keep up the minimum GPA etc.

George Washington.Univ has a 7 year BS + MD. Not for the weak.

How is the US system better?

The system we have is better. Stop complaining about medical school admissions. The system works fine.

Anonymous wrote:No, but I do with they didn’t need hundreds upon hundreds of hours in clinical, research, and volunteering to prove worthiness requiring a new norm of gap years. Mine doesn’t need one, but as the age increases worries it’s a negative not to even if ready. It’s a long path, don’t want it to be longer.

You again?

They don't "need hundreds upon hundreds of hours in clinical, research and volunteering" to get into med school. And much of your post here is incoherent.

Absolutely NOT.

No.

I work in a med school. There are enough students here who would probably be happier doing something else. That would increase dramatically with direct admit. Not a good thing.

No, but I do with they didn’t need hundreds upon hundreds of hours in clinical, research, and volunteering to prove worthiness requiring a new norm of gap years. Mine doesn’t need one, but as the age increases worries it’s a negative not to even if ready. It’s a long path, don’t want it to be longer.

Absolutely not.

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+1

No

Do your reseaerch as some US colleges do this. Brown University has PLME (8 year automatic admission to its medical school). I think Penn State and Thomas Jefferson Medical School still has this too (7 years for undergrad/MD degrees).

There are others...of course you have to keep up the minimum GPA etc.

Shhhh

Title says it all. In some European countries, Med School is direct admit.

Students still take PChem and Bio and what not, but so long ad student is passing they progress to the Medicine-specific courses without further ado. And the resulting medical knowledge is the same. They still have national licensing exams before one can practice.