September 2, 2005

Medical Students Criticize Curriculum

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

More than one-third of the nation's medical students responding to a recent survey said medical ethics was missing from their required curricula, and less than half were aware of courses that covered bioterrorism or disaster preparedness, according to a report released in August by the American Medical Student Association.

The report, by the nation's largest independent medical-student group, concluded that medical schools had failed to keep up with current topics, including the

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