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The pre‐health collection within MedEdPORTAL's iCollaborative: Helping faculty prepare students for the competencies in the new MCAT 2015 exam
Author(s) -
Jakubowski Henry V.,
Zapanta Laura S.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
biochemistry and molecular biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1539-3429
pISSN - 1470-8175
DOI - 10.1002/bmb.20680
Subject(s) - medical education , data collection , quality (philosophy) , health science , the internet , psychology , medicine , computer science , world wide web , sociology , social science , philosophy , epistemology
To help faculty prepare and revise courses in all the disciplines represented in the MCAT 2015 , the American Association of Medical Colleges, through its MedEdPORTAL's iCollaborative, has established the Pre‐health Collection, a repository of reviewed web resources that are openly and freely available to faculty, and indirectly through them to students. The Pre‐health Collection initiative makes use of the Internet to centralize teaching resources and to help faculty at institutions with fewer available resources to incorporate high quality teaching material specifically reviewed to assist students in obtaining the required pre‐health competencies. As biochemistry competencies are increasingly represented in the new exam, it is important to grow the number of quality teaching resources for biochemistry within the portal and to develop a community of users and contributors. A description of the Pre‐Health Collection and mechanisms for contributions are presented. © 2013 by The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 41(2):76‐78, 2013