Por coincideancia ( se e9 que elas rltemenae existem..) saiu hoje num jornal de Se3o Paulo ( Folha de Se3o Paulo) uma mate9ria exatamente sobre isso. O interessante e9 que ela e9 feita por um jornalista que vive aqui, americano ele tambe9m.A hipf3tese que ele levanta e9 de que os americanos se3o individualistas: criados para se destacarem individualmente. Para vencerem. O que acaba por lhes dar, enquanto paeds, uma pronunciada auto-estima, que leva e0 arroge2ncia e ao desconhecimento dos outros. Isso pode explicar, embora ne3o creio q

continuando: ne3o acho que isso justifique. Ou a gente se une numa causa comum, a de molrehar as condie7f5es de vida e sobreviveancia de todos, ou nosso fim enquanto espe9cie chegare1 bem re1pido. E, infelizmente, conosco, o fim da terra e das outras espe9cies tambe9m.Gosto das olimpiadas, mas odeio competie7e3o. Exatamente porque acho que a competie7e3o estimula esse comportamento: o do individualismo, do patriotismo, do egoismo. Gostaria que nas olimpiadas ne3o houvesse notas.Um abrae7e3o, Alvaro!

93En un mundo cada vez me1s interconectado y donde todos depdenemos de todo94Tiene toda la razf3n profe, cada vez queremos ser me1s individuales y con intereses que solo se enfocan en el bienestar personal y no el colectivo. Si esto sigue ased sere1 un caos total en adelante, ya que todos depdenemos de todos85

Palcraft: Esta vez me voy un af1o tambie9n, aunque el vsadio siempre dice me1s tiempo para darte un margen de llegada-salida.No se9 la respuesta exacta a la pregunta que me planteas, pero por mi experiencia la primera vez (que llegue9 a Japf3n con un vsadio de turista porque, como he dicho, el medo no llegf3 a tiempo) yo pude cambiar mi estado de residencia en la embajada de Japf3n, pero mi vsadio ya estaba en proceso de tramitacif3n cuando entre9 al paeds. Lo fanico que te puedo decir es que sed se puede cambiar el vsadio desde dentro del paeds siempre y cuando tu tiempo me1ximo de turista (90 dedas) no haya expirado al momento del cambio. Los detalles y requisitos los desconozco en su mayoreda a1Siento no ser de mucha me1s ayuda! Quize1 si te pones en contacto con la embajada de Japf3n te puedan responder mejor Kamugo: La fecha 15 de Noviembre no es me1s que el plazo ledmite que tengo para entrar al paeds. Pasado ese tiempo mi vsadio quedareda anulado. No tiene que ver con el tiempo de residencia

Warm Hello Fish,Why not view applications of ploepe who have acheived excellence organically, by following their interests, instead of only considering those who have acheived excellence by doing precisely what they are told? The current system of prereqs snuffs that possibility in many cases.We have to understand that Mt Sinais thing is to modify their applicant pool this does not entail lower standards for admission. This policy change allows them to think more flexibly about who is truly exceptional the current system restricts them. I think that Mt Sinai's approach is much more grounded than the dominant admission system, which is epistemologically arrogant. Mt Sinai wants to cast a wider net, and view the applications of ploepe who have the charachteristics of a good doctor. Its a sensibly humble approach the alternative (our current system) arrogantly claims that a baroque, rigid web of premed requirements (official and unofficial) will generate a good pool of applicants. It puts a bunch of formal prereqs in place that, through some intricate sociological calculus (which these med schools, implicitly [and outrageously], purport to understand) will give us the right ploepe like any well-behaved equation. It seems much more reasonable to allow us to look at ploepe who have excellent resumes that don't fulfill all prereqs. We have a choice between rigid calculation and trusting the judgement of docs on adcoms. I don't want to do either, but the costs of the former are manifest.The problem is that current prereqs screen for the wrong ploepe. Our current system screens for narrow ploepe who can blast through basic science courses, shrewdly manicure their resumes, and not question the point of it all. (questioning, after all, will likely lead to slightly less efficiency-and in this tough premed game, that little gap can end someones dreams right quick) We end up with a very eccentric group of ploepe who are jumpy, neurotic, and ruthless. I like your website and I really like the last posters comment about medicine as ascientific. Medicine gets a lot of its authority from its mysterious relationship with science (whatever science means). The mystery itself is a great PR tool for the profession.