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Originally Posted by Joecooool
Which is why the way doctors are taught in medical schools is absurd, unnecessary, and needs to be reformed.
Many doctors will tell you that the majority of what they learned in medical school never directly applies to their day-to-day practice. A more effective approach would be to structure medical training the way we educate tradespeople in vocational schools, with focused instruction in the chosen specialty, followed by several years of hands-on training.
There is little justification for requiring eight years of school plus seven years of residency before a doctor can practice independently, beyond sustaining the financial interests of universities and hospitals.
And who ends up paying for all of it? You and I through exorbitant prices for the services we receive.
And if you really want to see what a racket it is, just go here and see how out of whack what American doctors make compared to the rest of the world. Doctor Pay by Country 2025 |
So, that post is made on the basis of having gone through 4 years of pre-med, 4 years of medical school and in my case 3 years of residency? I doubt it. And the bottom line would be to dumb medicine down to the equivalent of vocational school?
Yes, we learn a lot of useless crap. I don't think that knowing that the intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni is Biornphalaria glabratta was ever useful to anyone except perhaps a parasitologist in Venezuela. But I did once have to exclude Trypanosoma cruzi from the reduuvid bug as the etiology of RBBB in a 22-year-old girl who had stayed a month in Suriname. So, you never know. I prefer my doctor to know more rather than less. And btw, the cost of physician services is less than 10% of the total cost of medical care in the US. But feel free to retain the services of a Somalian physician that earns less than $20K/year and let us know how that works out.