Even as breakthroughs in science and advances in technology make the practice of medicine increasingly complex, medical educators are looking beyond biology and chemistry majors in the search for more well-rounded students who can be molded into caring and analytic doctors. More humanities students have been applying in recent years, and medical schools like them. The schools are looking for a kind of compassion and potential doctoring ability. This makes many social-science and humanities students particularly well qualified.

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