Medical School Hopefuls Grapple with Overhauled Entrance Exam

July 1, 2015

(NPR) – The Association of American Medical Colleges, which administers the MCAT, wants to make sure the doctors of tomorrow are better prepared to care for an increasingly diverse patient population in a rapidly changing health care system. Administrators say the exam changes are necessary to bring it up to date with how medicine is practiced, and with all the scientific discoveries that have been made since the test was last revised, more than 20 years ago. Research on genetics and the social factors that affect health, in particular, have advanced significantly.