The CDC head suggests that doctors, nurses, veterinarians, pharmacists and dentists should all start education at one common school:
“If we are seriously thinking about building a health system, then we need to be training professionals in a collegial and collaborative manner.”
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A little blindered, perhaps because the speaker is a chief of a large government public health agency.
Isn’t the fact that many start out in similar undergraduate curricula enough? I can’t see any practical benefit to her idea. Of what possible use would forcing medical doctors and veterinarians and epidemiologists to start in the same pathway? Simply because they may participate in one way or another in a “system” is hardly a mandate for common training. The value of the diversity of training is something that shouldn’t be undervalued, but that shouldn’t be interpreted to mean all should somehow spring from the same source.
Medicine (MD/DO) is a graduate degree and nursing is usually an undergraduate degree. It would be hard to integrate the two.
Having first year graduate level health students (those studying to be MD’s, podiatrists, or dentists) take some 1st year classes together could work.
Well, I did attend a university that had dentists and nurses and pharmacists (no vets, though). What exactly would the point be?
Different standards for training (especially for nurses), different scopes of practice, different certification bodies….
The professions are different.
Plus, where would it stop? Next, we’d have to train with chiropractors and naturopathic quacks?
When will the shamans (medicine-men) be in the loop?
Gerberding is an idiot. I can’t believe that she can’t find something more important to talk about than half-assed ideas like this. Something that … you know, FIXES the problem, rather than blaming the ones trying to make the system actually work to heal people?
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