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Valentine Pontifex · 12-09-2002, 02:49 PM

<a href="http://news.bmn.com/news/story?day=021209&story=1" target="_blank">Medics Need to Evolve</a>

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Basically a group of scientists are want medical schools to beef up on evolutionary biology.

scigirl · 12-09-2002, 03:00 PM

Thanks I'll have to check it out.

My med school is pretty evolution heavy - it's also very research heavy.

scigirl

RufusAtticus · 12-09-2002, 04:22 PM

From the beginning of the article:

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There is a fundamental flaw in the way that medical students are being taught, says a group of leading scientists, who believe that a more thorough understanding of evolutionary biology would reveal new ways to prevent and treat disease.

In failing to teach young medics about evolutionary biology, "there's been a terrible accident in medical education," said Randolph Nesse, professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan. "Practicing medicine without evolutionary biology is like trying to do engineering without calculus," he said.

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