These changes have been in the works for the past three years and were released in draft form in April 2011.
The Association of American Medical Colleges, the organization responsible for the MCAT, approved them on Feb. 16, in an effort to encourage undergraduates from a wider variety of academic backgrounds to apply. Darrell G. Kirch, president of the AAMC, told reporters that disciplines such as sociology and psychology are becoming increasingly relevant to medicine, as doctors seek to understand the conditions that people live in and their reasons for acting as they do.
The AAMC has also been attempting to improve diversity among medical schools nationwide, but a gap persists between the scores of white applicants and those of minority applicants. Kirch said that he was not sure whether the changes would increase diversity but that he thought they could help.
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