Roxanne Prichard J
Psychology Department, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 55105.
J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2015 Mar 15;13(2):E2-6. eCollection 2015 Spring.
Each year over 50,000 college students and alumni take the Medical College Admissions Test® (MCAT) and apply for admissions to medical school. After an extensive review process, the MCAT has undergone a major revision in form and content in order to better reflect the competencies medical students will need to be successful in their training and practice. Starting in April 2015, for the first time since the test's inception, the MCAT will include social and behavioral sciences content. The new section of the MCAT exam titled "The Psychological, Social and Biological Foundations of Behavior" will test pre-health competencies that combine content knowledge with scientific inquiry and reasoning skills. Anticipating growing interest in curriculum related to the new competency based content on the exam, the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) established the Pre-health Collection within MedEdPORTAL's iCollaborative, a free repository of teaching resources. This online space gives faculty members the opportunity to share access to instructional resources in order to prepare or revise courses to include pre-health competencies. As a result of the increased content related to mind-body connections, undergraduate pre-medical students will be more likely to enroll in neuroscience courses to learn these competencies, or declare neuroscience majors, as the typical neuroscience major course requirements now meet most of the suggested pre-requisite competencies for medical school.
每年有超过50000名大学生和校友参加医学院入学考试（MCAT）并申请医学院入学。经过广泛的审查过程，MCAT在形式和内容上进行了重大修订，以更好地反映医学生在培训和实践中取得成功所需的能力。从2015年4月开始，自该考试设立以来，MCAT将首次包含社会和行为科学内容。MCAT考试新的部分名为“行为的心理、社会和生物学基础”，将测试结合内容知识与科学探究及推理技能的健康预科能力。预计对与考试中基于新能力的内容相关课程的兴趣会不断增加，美国医学院协会（AAMC）在MedEdPORTAL的iCollaborative（一个免费的教学资源库）中设立了健康预科资源集。这个在线平台让教师有机会共享教学资源，以便准备或修订课程，使其纳入健康预科能力。由于与身心联系相关的内容增加，本科医学预科学生将更有可能选修神经科学课程来学习这些能力，或者申报神经科学专业，因为典型的神经科学专业课程要求现在满足了医学院大部分建议的先修能力要求。
