The Tidal Wave is Coming
 Brace yourself for the coming
explosion of medical schools
| medicinesux | 02/15/10 |
 Will the AMA allow this? If so,
they are probably taking the | MississippiLawyer | 02/15/10 |
| dude, it's a huge misconception
that the AMA controls medica | coastie | 02/16/10 |
| P.S.: What is that 1st year med
student doing on a mannikin | coastie | 02/16/10 |
| more thread spamming:
from the commonwealth medical coll | coastie | 02/16/10 |
medicinesux (Feb 15 - 5:46 am)
Brace yourself for the coming explosion of medical schools
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/education/15medschools.html
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Brace yourself for the coming explosion of medical schools
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/education/15medschools.html
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MississippiLawyer (Feb 15 - 6:03 pm)
Will the AMA allow this? If so, they are probably taking the advice of their ABA counterparts, who will accredit nearly any law school.
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Will the AMA allow this? If so, they are probably taking the advice of their ABA counterparts, who will accredit nearly any law school.
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coastie (Feb 16 - 8:36 am)
dude, it's a huge misconception that the AMA controls medical school slots: they have no influence, whatsoever.
Furthermore, they are an org which makes money based on membership: selling insurance, conference fees, etc. They would love to have more folks in the pipeline.
The comments on that article are classic. I agree that the standards are being lowered by opening more medical schools. This is based on two things:
1) quality of applicants. Should everyone with a 3.3 and 27 on the MCAT be allowed into medical school?
2) quality of clinical training sites. Sorry, but Scranton, PA is not exactly a university-based medical school sort of town.
These two factors will lead to some scary docs in the future.
Medsux, thanks for sounding the call, as always.
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dude, it's a huge misconception that the AMA controls medical school slots: they have no influence, whatsoever.
Furthermore, they are an org which makes money based on membership: selling insurance, conference fees, etc. They would love to have more folks in the pipeline.
The comments on that article are classic. I agree that the standards are being lowered by opening more medical schools. This is based on two things:
1) quality of applicants. Should everyone with a 3.3 and 27 on the MCAT be allowed into medical school?
2) quality of clinical training sites. Sorry, but Scranton, PA is not exactly a university-based medical school sort of town.
These two factors will lead to some scary docs in the future.
Medsux, thanks for sounding the call, as always.
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coastie (Feb 16 - 8:40 am)
P.S.: What is that 1st year med student doing on a mannikin with an IV drip? He and his female counterpart should be slamming the books, not giving poor CPR to a poor mannikin. These kind of "innovative curricula" do nothing more than take the focus away from what is important.
An aside, the kid slams D.O. schools, but with his scores, he couldn't even land into the top tier of osteopathic schools. What a joke!
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P.S.: What is that 1st year med student doing on a mannikin with an IV drip? He and his female counterpart should be slamming the books, not giving poor CPR to a poor mannikin. These kind of "innovative curricula" do nothing more than take the focus away from what is important.
An aside, the kid slams D.O. schools, but with his scores, he couldn't even land into the top tier of osteopathic schools. What a joke!
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coastie (Feb 16 - 8:43 am)
more thread spamming:
from the commonwealth medical college wikipedia article:
"The College operates temporarily from Lackawanna College, and plans a main campus in Scranton, with others in Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport. One goal of The Commonwealth Medical College is to address a shortage of physicians in NE Pennsylvania by training new practitioners locally, in the expectation that many may choose to remain after qualifying. "
THREE CAMPUSES for this place? LOL. WOW. What a $ham.
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Post a message in this threadmore thread spamming:
from the commonwealth medical college wikipedia article:
"The College operates temporarily from Lackawanna College, and plans a main campus in Scranton, with others in Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport. One goal of The Commonwealth Medical College is to address a shortage of physicians in NE Pennsylvania by training new practitioners locally, in the expectation that many may choose to remain after qualifying. "
THREE CAMPUSES for this place? LOL. WOW. What a $ham.
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