Aspiring doctors admission process to medical school may be different from what they thought.

The 2015 MCAT will include the addition of social and behavioral sciences, advanced concepts in biochemistry and more critical thinking, making it more than an hour longer.

The changes may affect the process of medical schools that rely heavily on MCAT results, but for UF College of Medicines admissions, the test will remain only a small portion of a students evaluation.

Leila Amiri, director of admissions for UFs College of Medicine, said it is not changing its admissions prerequisites, and she does not think students should be too concerned about the changes or the length of the test.

A test is one snapshot of a persons performance, she said.

Owen Farcy, director of pre-health programs for Kaplan Test Prep, said the changes will take effect in March 2015, making this years freshmen the first students impacted.

Medical schools are recognizing the role of the physician is changing, and the skills that students need to be coming in with are changing as well, he said.

Farcy said the reason the MCAT is so important is that it has traditionally been seen as a predictor of students success in medical school.

He said the AAMC, the company that writes and administers the test, realized its science content was outdated. The last revision of the MCAT was in 1991, and a lot has happened in the past 20 years regarding changes in medical science.

Medicine is an extremely dynamic field, and there are advances happening every year, Farcy said. Many of those advances and changes will hopefully be included in some way, shape or form on the MCAT itself.

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MCAT adds more sections to 2015 version of exam