Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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%)"
"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 :)
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!
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: 11:45 AM
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.
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