SDN is becoming day by day populated with more and more med students and residents. Which is really a great achievement. But at the same time many high school kids and undergrad college students also join it. I really believe they should have some resgistration mechnanisms which verfies that He/She is indeed a Med student or Pod student or DO or MD or Premed or PreDent or NP or etc and that should be posted along with their USER ID.
Because now no one knows who is the other person. May be he or she is not even a Med student or Pod student or resident but some disgruntled Pre-med or pre-pod flipping burgers in some run down place and claiming on SDN that he/she is this and that and start narrating his imaginative stories. Tomorrow i can make a new id and claim myself as someone else and start narrating my madeup experience about my jokes with some other healthcare provider
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I mean who gives us the guarantee that the Poster is really who he or she is. Whats the assurance that he is not just lying or making up the whole story. Any one can get medical terminology/proffesor names/program directors/facility info and now even real life experience of residents from BLOGS or Google.com
. While some people are openly recognized by others as students of a certain college or residents of certain specaility on this forum. they are universally accepted on the forum for who they are and also people know them because they have met them during admission interviews/seminars/residencies, clerkships,etc. But some new guy suddenly popping up out of nowhere and claiming this and that is really questionable
Its not directed towards a particular person. but seriously dont you think when we all claim this is a professional forum why not have professional rules and verfication system so that we know what ever we are reading is 100% authentic and not made up.