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What do you call the guy who makes A's in medical school?
Future Teacher
What do you call the guy who makes B's?
The best doctor
What do you call the guy who makes straight C's?
The one who makes the most money
-MD in 14
Monday, June 28, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Summer Reading at Work!
Its neat to be able to read at my job. My grandpa gave me a book about health care, and there was a chapter in it about the current and the future education of medical students! Its called "The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care".
"There are 129 U.S. medical schools with an average of 2 to 3 applicants for each of the 15,000 to 16,000 available seats. Counting college, tomorrow's doctors will have spent 10 to 18 of the most productive years of their lives just training for their careers."
1) In 1910, there was extensive research done by Abraham Flexner, and the conclusion was that there were too many doctors being trained in American medical schools, and that a more expensive medical education was to be needed if people were to "reap the full benefit of recent progress in medicine". Because of this man, the medical school curriculum was restructured, and made uniform over all schools, that is, two years of science training followed by two years of clinical training.
2) 2/3 of schools today are not efficient in the training of the first 2 years of medical school. The reason is because much of what is learned does not pertain to the clinical knowledge in the last 2 years. Another major issue is that doctors are trained to work independently of each other by and large, and little training in areas of how to create, administer, or improve the way people work together in the health-care system.
3) Science and clinical should be conducted in parallel. Students would be less prone to forget what they learned. Another issue is that there are not enough primary care doctors, and so the gap is being filled in by foreign medical schools, schools of osteopathic medicine, and nursing schools.
Our medical system is in the process of reform, and its interesting to see how this will affect me as I start medical school this September!
-MD in 14
"There are 129 U.S. medical schools with an average of 2 to 3 applicants for each of the 15,000 to 16,000 available seats. Counting college, tomorrow's doctors will have spent 10 to 18 of the most productive years of their lives just training for their careers."
1) In 1910, there was extensive research done by Abraham Flexner, and the conclusion was that there were too many doctors being trained in American medical schools, and that a more expensive medical education was to be needed if people were to "reap the full benefit of recent progress in medicine". Because of this man, the medical school curriculum was restructured, and made uniform over all schools, that is, two years of science training followed by two years of clinical training.
2) 2/3 of schools today are not efficient in the training of the first 2 years of medical school. The reason is because much of what is learned does not pertain to the clinical knowledge in the last 2 years. Another major issue is that doctors are trained to work independently of each other by and large, and little training in areas of how to create, administer, or improve the way people work together in the health-care system.
3) Science and clinical should be conducted in parallel. Students would be less prone to forget what they learned. Another issue is that there are not enough primary care doctors, and so the gap is being filled in by foreign medical schools, schools of osteopathic medicine, and nursing schools.
Our medical system is in the process of reform, and its interesting to see how this will affect me as I start medical school this September!
-MD in 14
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Reason for the Blog
Today is June 9, 2010. I am sitting at work, a scholar center in Corallville. Its a lingusitc conference and I have time to read and surf the internet during the speakers presentations. I've been trying to read an article about the impact of the "Obamacare" bill, but I got distracted by medical school on my mind. I got onto StudentDoctorforums.net, and I've been searching for medical resources, Iphone medical apps, and reading forums about stress and time management in medical school.
A link to me to this blog website by accident, and I decided this would be a great way to journal my experiences in medical school. What's really neat, is that two months ago to this exact date, April 9, I was accepted into Rush Medical school in Chicago.
My plans with this blog is to chronicle my time at Rush, so family and friends can see what I am going through and experiencing. I think it will be a great way to relieve stress by doing this, and fun too! It'll be a good way to see whether what other people on the internet forums have said about Medical school is true. Heck, maybe I'll land a book deal out of this, and then I won't have to practice medicine! Its going to be alot of fun blogging about becoming a doctor, or "Dr. Dawg"!
-MD in 14
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