Does conventional early life academic excellence predict later life scientific discovery? An assessment of the lives of great medical innovators
| Autor: | B I Posner, M Vranic, R B Haynes, R. J. de Souza, A R Ronald, David J.A. Jenkins, Laura Chiavaroli, Cyril W.C. Kendall, P Gold, Arash Mirrahimi, Effie Viguiliouk, John L. Sievenpiper, T M Chang, Tom Tsirakis, Kristie Srichaikul, Viranda H. Jayalath, Sathish C. Pichika, Andres M. Lozano, Y T Wang, Stephanie K. Nishi, Vivian L Choo, C Gillett, M D Hollenberg, Charles N. Bernstein |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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education Population Scientific discovery MEDLINE 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Jury Excellence Order (exchange) Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Organizations education.field_of_study Medical education Education Medical business.industry Flexibility (personality) General Medicine Original Papers Early life AcademicSubjects/MED00010 business |
| Zdroj: | QJM: An International Journal of Medicine |
| ISSN: | 1460-2393 1460-2725 |
| Popis: | Summary Background Perhaps, as never before, we need innovators. With our growing population numbers, and with increasing pressures on our education systems, are we in danger of becoming more rigid and formulaic and increasingly inhibiting innovation? When young can we predict who will become the great innovators? For example, in medicine, who will change clinical practice? Aims We therefore determined to assess whether the current academic excellence approach to medical school entrance would have captured previous great innovators in medicine, assuming that they should all have well fulfilled current entrance requirements. Methods The authors assembled a list of 100 great medical innovators which was then approved, rejected or added to by a jury of 12 MD fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Two reviewers, who had taken both the past and present Medical College Admission Test as part of North American medical school entrance requirements, independently assessed each innovator’s early life educational history in order to predict the innovator’s likely success at medical school entry, assuming excellence in all entrance requirements. Results Thirty-one percent of the great medical innovators possessed no medical degree and 24% would likely be denied entry to medical school by today’s standards (e.g. had a history of poor performance, failure, dropout or expulsion) with only 24% being guaranteed entry. Even if excellence in only one topic was required, the figure would only rise to 41% certain of medical school entry. Conclusion These data show that today’s medical school entry standards would have barred many great innovators and raise questions about whether we are losing medical innovators as a consequence. Our findings have important implications for promoting flexibility and innovation for medical education, and for promoting an environment for innovation in general. |
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