As if they didn’t have enough problems already:
Paul Mehne was a popular dean on the Camden campus of the state’s medical school, well-liked by the small cadre of students there who felt their satellite program in South Jersey was something special.What troubled investigators, however, is that none of his students ever seemed to fail. A new report by a federal monitor, scheduled to be released tomorrow, concludes that Mehne doctored the grades of several medical school students, including some now practicing medicine, giving passing test scores to those who came up short on exams needed to begin specialty rotations.
(via Health Care Renewal)
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This is what happens when you take shortcuts to building a medical school. A shoestring operation to slip offshore med students is what it looks like to me.
If that supposition is accurate, they are going to have some weak students and, if evaluating them fairly, are going to have to suck up the embarassment of a higher failure rate than real med schools.
The bigger concern however is not answered by having them all show mastery of the basics by passing the USMLE. The bigger problem is that they have apparently been acculturated to the profession of medicine and it’s ethics by cheats.
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