Brenner Charles
Department of Biochemistry, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 2013 Jan-Feb;41(1):1-4. doi: 10.1002/bmb.20653.
Approximately two million students matriculate into American colleges and universities per year. Almost 20% of these students begin taking a series of courses specified by advisers of health preprofessionals. The single most important influence on health profession advisers and on course selection for this huge population of learners is the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), which was last revised in 1991, 10 years before publication of the first draft human genome sequence. In preparation for the 2015 MCAT, there is a broad discussion among stakeholders of how best to revise undergraduate and medical education in the molecular sciences to prepare researchers and doctors to acquire, analyze and use individual genomic and metabolomic data in the coming decades. Getting these changes right is among the most important educational problems of our era.
每年约有两百万学生进入美国的学院和大学。这些学生中近20%开始修读健康预专业顾问指定的一系列课程。对健康专业顾问以及这大量学习者的课程选择影响最大的是医学院入学考试（MCAT），该考试上次修订是在1991年，即人类基因组序列初稿发表的十年前。为准备2015年的MCAT，利益相关者广泛讨论了如何最好地修订分子科学领域的本科和医学教育，以使研究人员和医生在未来几十年能够获取、分析和使用个人基因组和代谢组数据。正确做出这些改变是我们这个时代最重要的教育问题之一。
