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MEDICAL STUDENTS LEARN HORSE SENSE

Horses are helping to train the next generation of medical doctors—but not in the ways you might think. Instead of serving as models for comparative physiology or subjects for the practice surgeries, they are being used to teach medical students how to cope with ambiguity.

Since 2014, students at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Rhode Island have been given

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