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The 2015 redesign of the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) is a disruptive event that has stimulated a great deal of discussion in undergraduate educational circles. These discussions include figuring out who will teach biochemistry, whether nonmajor chemistry courses should be changed, whether the psychosocial material to be tested constitutes academic behavioral science or the sensibilities that come from exposure to different cultures, and determining whether resources need to shift. The 2015 MCAT has also begun to alter admissions requirements and curricula in medical, pharmacy, and dental schools. Though many medical schools are taking the position that biochemistry will already have been covered as an undergraduate requirement and seem to be deemphasizing molecular science in the first-year curriculum, at least one college of dentistry has embraced the better prepared first-year student in order to offer advanced biochemistry and genomics that will build on undergraduate biochemistry.
