--- title: Liberal Arts Majors: Why They Could Make Better Doctors description: The promise of an all-girl maker movement, the fight to treat food workers fairly, catching data breaches sooner, skipping pre-med and more. canonical: https://time.com/3906933/liberal-arts-major-medical-school-doctors/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-03T16:01:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:13.385Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Liberal Arts Majors Could Make Better Doctors og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3906933/liberal-arts-major-medical-school-doctors/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Liberal Arts Majors Could Make Better Doctors twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Liberal Arts Majors Could Make Better Doctors by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 3, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 3, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**One medical school believes liberal arts majors — not pre-med students — can make better doctors.**](http://khn.org/news/a-top-medical-school-revamps-requirements-to-lure-english-majors/) By Julie Rovner in Kaiser Health News **2\.** [**Can we finally treat food workers fairly?**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/opinion/can-we-finally-treat-food-workers-fairly.html) By Mark Bittman in the New York Times **3\.** [**There’s a way to stop data breaches before millions of records are compromised.**](http://www.technologyreview.com/news/537921/startup-aims-to-scour-the-dark-web-for-stolen-data/) By Robert Lemos in MIT Technology Review **4\.** [**Let’s start an all-girl maker movement.**](https://www.edsurge.com/n/2015-05-24-the-importance-of-maker-education-for-girls) By Angi Chau at EdSurge **5\.** [**Skip the air conditioner and cool your house with a self-chilling roof.**](http://www.popsci.com/new-material-could-make-your-roof-cool-even-hot-summer-day) By Mary Beth Griggs in Popular Science  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3906933/liberal-arts-major-medical-school-doctors/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3906933/liberal-arts-major-medical-school-doctors/"},"headline":"Why Liberal Arts Majors Could Make Better Doctors","datePublished":"2015-06-03T16:01:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:13.385Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3906933/liberal-arts-major-medical-school-doctors/","keywords":["Innovation","Minimum Wage","Data breach","Air conditioning"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3906933/liberal-arts-major-medical-school-doctors/","name":"Why Liberal Arts Majors Could Make Better Doctors"}}]}] ```