Medical schools are not adequately preparing future physicians for real-life
“According to survey results, released today, physicians-in-training are receiving traditional education, but are not being offered curricula that keeps pace with the advances in the healthcare industry. As summer vacation ends and schools re-open, medical students wonder, am I receiving an education that will make me a competent physician? Results show that only 17 percent of students are very satisfied with their curricula . . .
. . . Respondents report their curriculum includes no classes/electives on:
- Business of medicine (47%)
- Technology advances in medicine (35%)
- Global HIV/AIDS (31%)
- Complementary and alternative medicine (26%)”
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I am fairly pleased so far with my school. We’re four weeks into class and already have had several lectures on alternative healing and the HIV/AIDS epidemic both here and abroad. We’ve spent considerable time on the ethics and humanism of the AIDS crisis.
While I wouldn’t call it the “business” of medicine, my school is making a remarkable step forward this year in trying to introduce students early to a wide, wide range of specialties including giving lots of time to FP and Peds.
I’m pretty pleased so far with my curriculum. Maybe I’ll be more upset with my curriculum when I actually get into rotations
Medical school could be lengthened to 6, 8, 10 years, or realize that it is a profession of life long learning and growth — which it is.
I feel that many medical schools don’t integrate enough communicating with the patients AND accurate history-taking. It’s often something that is glossed over. Psychology or psychiatry should definitely make up more of the curriculum!
Medical school could be lengthened to 6, 8, or 10 years. One will still feel “unprepared”. Medicine is a profession of lifelong learning and evolution.
sorry about the double blog and now the apology.