Basically, they fall into five distinct groups: eliminate all requirements; emphasize the basic sciences more; emphasize the basic sciences less; eliminate specific course requirements, but have more flexibly defined competences; and, finally, include more emphasis on evolutionary biology.
Archaeology makes great use of the basic sciences: maths, physics and chemistry.
It is a major research university in medicine, the basic sciences, engineering, and the humanities and social sciences.
My knowledge of the basic sciences was of far more use in my studies than my A grade A-level geology that was soon left far behind.
Against these, the best investment would be in the basic sciences to ensure that, in order to protect ourselves against such unforeseen events, they might at least have been dreamed of in our philosophies.
For example, I studied a very traditional course where the first two years are focused on the basic sciences - with very little patient contact - followed by three clinical years (i.e. in hospitals).
While both the House and Senate versions of the bill contain billions of dollars for research, the Senate bill, passed Tuesday, greatly weights the money to biomedical research and has much lower levels for the basic sciences.
Europe, once upon a time, was a hot bed of research in the basic sciences.
For my postdoc, I made the somewhat scary transition from chemical engineering to the basic sciences.
It highlights goals and learning objectives associated with teaching medical professionalism in the basic sciences.
Therefore, there will likely continue to be pre-meds that choose academic majors in the basic sciences and increasing numbers that obtain training in the basic sciences while pursuing majors in the humanities and social sciences.
