The Conference on Scientific Foundations of Future Physicians: How do physics departments respond?

物理学（13）国家研究理事会的《生物2010》报告、美国医学院协会、霍华德休斯医学研究所和未来医生科学基金会都呼吁对科学入门课程进行改革。 一套明确的能力，学生应该拥有当他们进入医学院已经阐明。 这些能力预计将取代目前的医学预科要求的一套定义的入门课程，并推动即将到来的MCAT考试的M5修订版。物理学入门课程长期以来为学生提供了他们的第一次接触到自然世界的模型驱动的观点，并且通常是学生在大学水平上的第一门科学课程。 很少有物理系准备应对这一不断变化的课程格局。 生命科学入门物理学（IPLS）项目汇集了来自各种学院和大学类型的教师，已经开始实施改革的教师以及生命和医学科学的教师，以初步了解已知的内容和需要做的事情。 研讨会将建立一个框架，开始急需的物理导论课程的改革，提醒全国物理系需要对话，并为对话提供一个平台。

PHYSICS (13)Calls to reform the introductory science curriculum have come from the National Research Council's Bio2010 report, Association of American Medical Colleges, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians. A well defined set of competencies that students should possess when they enter medical school have been articulated. These competencies are expected to replace the current premed requirements for a defined set of introductory courses and to drive the upcoming M5 revision of the MCAT exam. Introductory physics courses have long provided students with their first exposure to a model-driven view of the natural world, and are frequently the first science course a student takes at the college level. Few physics departments are prepared to address this changing curricular landscape. The Introductory Physics for the Life Science (IPLS) project is bringing together faculty from a variety of college and university types, faculty who have begun to implement reforms, and faculty from the life and medical sciences, to generate an initial understanding of what is known and what needs to be done. The workshop will set in place a framework to begin a much-needed reform of introductory physics courses, to alert physics departments nationwide for the need for dialog, and to provide a platform for that dialog.