Welcome
to WikiPremed
WikiPremed was created to make it easier for an intelligent, motivated
person anywhere in the world to become a doctor. For premedical students in
the United States, there is no better learning program than the WikiPremed MCAT
Course for securing the level of mastery that earns a superior MCAT score. In
addition to improving the accessibility of science education, the WikiPremed
MCAT Course is an important contribution to educational design. This learning
program teaches the physical and biological sciences within a unified
curriculum, an approach developed over many years working closely with college
students in small group teaching. The WikiPremed MCAT Course consists of
twenty modules. Each module contains fifteen to twenty hours of videos and
assignments. The resources here can be utilized as a stand-alone MCAT course
or in combination with another course. There are no restricted areas on this
website. You can study at WikiPremed for as long as you want. It is often
useful to begin WikiPremed several months prior to beginning a live course to
establish the conditions for the full realization of the potential of the live
course within a more ambitious program.
The medical
education community created the MCAT not only for the admissions process, but
to give students a compelling reason to review their undergraduate coursework
and get ready for medical school. Becoming a doctor is a long and difficult
path. We have taken a great deal of care to make a proper guide for this
challenging part of the journey, the global review of the undergraduate
sciences in final preparation for medical school.
The Main
Progression
In the Main Progression of the course, we make our careful way through the
physical and biological sciences topic by topic, covering the material in great
detail in sequence. Some types of Main Progression assignments in the syllabus
are designed to set the stage at the beginning of the topic, to get you
oriented, while other assignments are to help you master the concepts and
assess your progress before moving on. In watching the course videos, imagine
you are sitting at the table with us. Participate in the discussion. Do not
try to absorb the knowledge by osmosis. Work the problems. Take a good set of
notes. Discipline will be required to adapt your life to the WikiPremed MCAT
Course, but it is even more important to make the course adapt to you. Not
everyone starts at the same place and not everyone has the same learning style.
What's important is that you achieve the Main Progression learning goals
for each topic before moving on to the next topic. The Main Progression work
represents a bit more than half of the total study time in the course.
Preview,
Review, and Knowledge Mapping
If
there were only the Main Progression in the WikiPremed MCAT Course, the course
would be like tunneling through a mountain without ever walking around it. An
essential step in the development of scientific mastery is to learn the
structure of the scientific knowledge-base and gain self-awareness of the
knowledge as a kind of mental performance. If reviewing the physical and
biological sciences were exploring a city, the Main Progression of the
WikiPremed MCAT Course would be like exploring at the street level while the
Preview, Review and Knowledge Mapping components of the course would be like
seeing the whole city from the point of view of the tallest building. Preview,
Review and Knowledge Mapping in the WikiPremed MCAT Course help you structure
your knowledge base. This is accomplished in coordination with the Main
Progression through an interdisciplinary spiraling curriculum. In a spiraling
learning program, you are exposed to important concepts early. As the course
progresses, you return to those concepts again and again, expanding on the
foundation established earlier.
How is
WikiPremed more advanced?
Methods
which began in our small group course evolved through years of work into an
extensive discipline for choreographing breakthroughs in scientific
understanding. The Wikipremed MCAT Course is the first spiraling curriculum for
comprehensive undergraduate science review. An example of the spiraling method
is the repeated focus on electrostatic potential energy from the very beginning
of the learning program. This prepares you to begin the review of chemistry
having atomic theory, chemical bonding, and intermolecular force within the
field of reference of physics. This isn't about making things more
complicated but about giving you the ability to conceptualize chemical change
in a direct, common-sense way. The course takes you from basic physics to
oxidative metabolism and beyond in a unified discussion that grows more
advanced by careful gradations. Although there is a definite body of required
knowledge for the MCAT, the difference between scoring 12s and 8s on the
science sections is the sophistication of the understanding, which comes from
conceptual integration. The AAMC uses MCAT passages like probes to see if you
have developed the background and intuition to interpret the scientific
phenomena you will encounter in medical school. The WikiPremed MCAT Course
prepares you in the most efficient possible way to demonstrate on the MCAT that
you are ready for medical school.
Course
materials
Although
nearly all of what you need is available online, some printed course materials
are still essential. You need the The ManDala PreMedical Learning System for the
Preview, Review, and Knowledge Mapping assignments of the learning program.
Printed copies of The WikiPremed Physics Flashcards and the The Organic Mechanisms
Pocketbook are also available. For some assignments in the syllabus,
you will also need the Examkrackers
set or equivalent.
Free shipping is available
for WikiPremed publications.
The 1st
module
