Notice how incredibly diluted most of the responses were. I guess the most honest answer to the original question was that there are steps to becoming a doctor and the structure sets the pace. Becoming a doctor of medicine comes with the responsibility of its merit. In order to be allowed to touch people intimately and intelligently, a student must endure the rigors established professionalism. It's not all about just fixing what is broken.
Some of the answers coming from a few posters who claim to seek position in healthcare; leaves me wondering what in the world they are doing in Health 'Care.'
The question was quite legitimate. (If I may take liberty to reform the question,) What is the quickest way to achieve the honor of becoming a doctor? The poster should just asked further, 'has anyone noticed or found that they could eliminate unnecessary classes or pre-reqs?'
What confuses me is, there is talk about 4 years of med-school along with an uncertain amount of time investment around it. It is almost like people are just making **** up as they go along. There is talk about pre-reqs to get into med school. Then there is again more talk about achieving a BA or BS before a school will consider accepting a student into med school. Well, which is it or is it both?
What seems most logical to me is,
Grabbing enough knowledge to quality for entry into Pre-med (1-2 years?) that seems designed to armor the student for the med school entry exam MCAT. Then once entered into med school there is 2 years of rigorous learning before first year rotations begin and the student gets some real world taste of the medical environment, which then flows into residency in the 4th year.
After which a student of medicine, achieved in all the time requirements and exposure, can take up full-time residency as a hospital physician - (the aforementioned is cloudy to me, as well as with the following), the student's succession of the forth year could also chose to go onto a specialty and spend the next 2 to 4 years expanding in their field of interest. If they chose to stay at the previous level, they could wean themselves out of the hospital setting and into a private practice or ambulatory setting?
The time frame would depend on the stamina of the student, *there ability to learn and retain information, their ability to cope with the bureaucracy of a bias learning environment, the will to get through a collection of information (digging out what is actually required to pass the tests from all the outdated and useless information) and meeting all the timed assignments to prove a student has adequate exposure that is reasonably expected by society.
This is certainly a long winded answer, but how many of you find it accurate? Is there anything that could be condensed without breaching the integrity of the status Doctor or put anyone at risk? Or are we just going to avoid answering based on the stigma and biased crap or the fact that no one really knows?
Some of the answers coming from a few posters who claim to seek position in healthcare; leaves me wondering what in the world they are doing in Health 'Care.'
The question was quite legitimate. (If I may take liberty to reform the question,) What is the quickest way to achieve the honor of becoming a doctor? The poster should just asked further, 'has anyone noticed or found that they could eliminate unnecessary classes or pre-reqs?'
What confuses me is, there is talk about 4 years of med-school along with an uncertain amount of time investment around it. It is almost like people are just making **** up as they go along. There is talk about pre-reqs to get into med school. Then there is again more talk about achieving a BA or BS before a school will consider accepting a student into med school. Well, which is it or is it both?
What seems most logical to me is,
Grabbing enough knowledge to quality for entry into Pre-med (1-2 years?) that seems designed to armor the student for the med school entry exam MCAT. Then once entered into med school there is 2 years of rigorous learning before first year rotations begin and the student gets some real world taste of the medical environment, which then flows into residency in the 4th year.
After which a student of medicine, achieved in all the time requirements and exposure, can take up full-time residency as a hospital physician - (the aforementioned is cloudy to me, as well as with the following), the student's succession of the forth year could also chose to go onto a specialty and spend the next 2 to 4 years expanding in their field of interest. If they chose to stay at the previous level, they could wean themselves out of the hospital setting and into a private practice or ambulatory setting?
The time frame would depend on the stamina of the student, *there ability to learn and retain information, their ability to cope with the bureaucracy of a bias learning environment, the will to get through a collection of information (digging out what is actually required to pass the tests from all the outdated and useless information) and meeting all the timed assignments to prove a student has adequate exposure that is reasonably expected by society.
This is certainly a long winded answer, but how many of you find it accurate? Is there anything that could be condensed without breaching the integrity of the status Doctor or put anyone at risk? Or are we just going to avoid answering based on the stigma and biased crap or the fact that no one really knows?
