“It’s time for us to take some risks,” said Dr. David Muller, author of one of The New England Journal of Medicine articles (Reforming Premedical Education — Out with the Old, In with the New) and dean for medical education at Mount Sinai. “We need to push the limits on what we’ve been complacent about for too long.”
Dr. David Muller joins many other medical doctors who believe in the holistic approach and adopting new methods to medical school admission. Dr. Robert A. Witzburg and Dr. Henry M. Sondheimer are 2 more medical doctors who make a strong case for the holistic approach, too, in The New England Journal of Medicine article here: Holistic Review — Shaping the Medical Profession One Applicant at a Time
I am so happy that more schools are willing to give this a try. With the support of the AAMC, too, I believe that this will give more students like myself a chance at medical acceptance. The AAMC is actually hosting a workshop for medical schools' admission committees to discuss this: Holistic Review in Admissions: Challenging Conventional Thinking and Practice
News like this makes me stay positive. I know that I am going against the odds but God is good. I know that I have the heart, compassion, and mental capacity to be an excellent physician. I am not an idiot nor am I slow. One slip on the road will not stop me from pursuing my medicine goals. I will continue to bang down the doors of as many medical schools I can until one of these schools decide to take a chance with me. I tell you this, that school will be forever grateful.
"I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."--Michael Jordan
