You sure? - I had long understood that med school completion rates are very high. Selection occurs at the admission stage (large portion of PRE-med students never get in) - but once selected - for a skill set that near-guarantees the desired MD skill set - the completion rates are very high. We are speaking here of the perverse quality of the skill set - e.g. quick on the prescription pad draw, computer monitor tunnel vision, etc.
Depends whereof you speak. It’s high in the UK (edjucayshun is ‘free’) but then university drop-out is high ever since the clown in charge back in 1997 decreed a target of 50% of school leavers to go to university. There followed a lowering of standards, grade inflation, and affirmative action skewed to females, ethnics, parental financial status - so entrance requirements became anyone with a pulse who had been to school and fulfilled the affirmation criteria - literacy and numeracy not required. The result? As one wag put it, what do you say to a university graduate? Do I get fries with that?
All hail the all knowing medical student
STUDENT….I repeat, student. That being said a full blown doc coulda said this too
There is a very small, but statistically significant rise in death rates and medical errors in training hospitals in the summer. Any guess as to why?
Ummm…their teachers got their degrees out of a Crackerjack Box!
A lot of medical students do not finish their course, because they are dumb so not the best sources for advice; unfortunately far too many do.
You sure? - I had long understood that med school completion rates are very high. Selection occurs at the admission stage (large portion of PRE-med students never get in) - but once selected - for a skill set that near-guarantees the desired MD skill set - the completion rates are very high. We are speaking here of the perverse quality of the skill set - e.g. quick on the prescription pad draw, computer monitor tunnel vision, etc.
And obedience. Med schools screen for obedience.
Depends whereof you speak. It’s high in the UK (edjucayshun is ‘free’) but then university drop-out is high ever since the clown in charge back in 1997 decreed a target of 50% of school leavers to go to university. There followed a lowering of standards, grade inflation, and affirmative action skewed to females, ethnics, parental financial status - so entrance requirements became anyone with a pulse who had been to school and fulfilled the affirmation criteria - literacy and numeracy not required. The result? As one wag put it, what do you say to a university graduate? Do I get fries with that?