Academic background of Nobel prize laureates reveals the importance of multidisciplinary education in medicine
Academic background of Nobel prize laureates reveals the importance of multidisciplinary education in medicine
The results demonstrate that 49.5% of the laureates of Nobel prize in medicine have multidisciplinary educational background and 69% of their undergraduate majors are not directly in medicine. After removing the laureates who graduated from the countries that do not provide undergraduate medical education, the percentage is still as high as 52%.