The Future of Medical Education

by IMNOTDRPHIL (Posted Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:27 am) The future of medical education is a giant topic.My situation is that I am 16 years past the applying to medical school stage that many of the forum visitors here are experiencing. I got accepted to the main medical school in my state, went through residency in family medicine (by choice as I wanted to " be a real doctor, " and now, boy do I regret it!), and have been in practice since graduating.I also know and routinely correspond with people who are well known in the educational policy community. I have not personally published work in that discipline, but have collaborated with those that did and have merited mention in their works. I would have personally published but since I am in full-time practice, I don't have the time to do it myself. I am published in the medical scientific literature multiple times.The current state of medical education is that it is highly inefficient and like much of postsecondary and graduate education, largely geared towards supporting the large, bloated, minimally-accountable institutions that administer it and saddling you with debt at way above market interest rates that will plague you for a long time. Residency is similar, very inefficient, abusive, but benefits the sponsoring hospital and CMS greatly.The fact that you have to be directly supervised during everything you do during 3rd and 4th years of medical school, much of what you do during intern year, and some of what you do later, an...
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