Knowing the world around is important so that you can empathize with the “plight of others”. It’s about you and taking a stand on controversial issues. Where is your foundation? What do you believe in? All of this is built on who you are and knowing who you are.
Here is a general list of topics you should study up on.
- Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) admissions initiative.
- AAMC’s core competencies for entering medical students.
- Bioethics. Be able to state case examples.
- Four pillars of medical ethics.
- Law and ethics.
- Difference between ethics and morality.
- Affirmative action.
- Capitation payments.
- HMO vs. PPO vs. EPO vs. POS
- Universal health.
- Socialized health.
- When does life begin?
- Abortion.
- Primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary care.
- Different health care frameworks in other countries around the world.
- Rural health.
- Healthcare access and underserved areas.
- Rural healthcare.
- Top 10 domestic health care issues and challenges.
- Top 10 global healthcare issues and challenges.
- Top 10 Center for Disease Control issues and challenges.
- Top 10 World Health Organization issues and challenges.
- Global Health Security Agenda.
- Healthcare trends in 2019 (or the current year).
- Innovation and technology in healthcare.
- Healthcare without borders.
- Telemedicine.
- Consumer-driven healthcare.
- HIV and AIDS crossroads.
- Noncommunicable disease.
- Fake news and misinformation.
- Disease X.
- Women’s health.
- Environmental impacts.
- A changing workforce.
- Mental health.
- Violence and healthcare.
- Immigrants and refugees.
- Disease detection, outbreak prevention, response, and containment.
- Opioid crisis.
- WHO blueprint list of priority diseases.
- Empathy vs. sympathy.
- Altruism.
- Malpractice vs. negligence.
- Medicare vs. Medicaid and new challenges this year.
- Patient protection and affordable care act.
- Socialized medicine vs. single payer vs. what we have now.
- Biggest challenges facing healthcare.
- What do you think about the ACA?
- Is the ACA sustainable.
- Shortage of doctors in underserved areas.
