Original Article: Admissions Bias Against Alternative Medicine?
For medical school admissions, package study of alternative medicine carefully
Chrissa wrote in to say that she believes that complementary and alternative medicine systems should be more important to mainstream, Western medicine. In fact, she’s studying Ayurvedic medicine, and she wants to know if she should talk about it in her future medical school admissions applications and interviews. Gabe Conley, Patrick Brau, Elizabeth Shirazi, and Derek Bradley (along with several other co-hosts I put the question to) offer their advice to Chrissa, which is, sure, but be careful how you do it. And we find out just how much our crew knows about Ayurvedic medicine with a little pop quiz.
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