Becoming a doctor must mean passing a hardcore line up of organic chemistry, physics and the dreadful Medical College Admission Test also know as MCAT. This has largely become a tradition for most schools and a headache for someone aspiring for medical education.

However, certain debates came to question the necessity of the pure scientific approach regarding medical education. Con side believes the importance of social science and humanities in developing into the profession. Conversely, such subjects are barely considered minor ones in traditional perspective.

Dr. Kase, the unconventional founder of the Mount Sinai medical program points that humanities and social sciences makes up a caring and more humane doctor than being a merely scientific medical practitioner.

With such principle, the Mount Sinai Medical College does not put much focus on organic chemistry, physics and MCAT and refused to make it as a basis for college student admissions. Students agree to major in social sciences and humanities and just a basic in biology and chemistry. He also believes that science shouldn’t be a hindrance instead it must serve as an insight to the biology of human disease.

The debate have been existing even in the past years and it’s been revived through the recent study made by Dr. Kase himself along with medical school’s dean for medical education, Dr. Robert Muller. The study compared outcomes; 85 of their Humanities and Medicine Program with 606 of the traditional approach and find out equivalent academic performance.

Even though such findings favor Kase’ approach, the MCAT has been the standard for medical school rankings both Word Report and World News. This will made quite impossible for medical schools to drop the MCAT.

Meanwhile, Kase’ study found out that Humanities and Medicine Program students tend to be more sensitive doctors and twice likely to be psychiatrists and less than Kase expected to go into pediatrics. Also, students avoid going into fields of surgical subspecialties and anesthesiology.