Side door admissions is a take off on the new California college admissions scam/cheating.
We ARE, however, entering a new era in Medicine in Century 21, which is the advent of
what I will call the Scientific and Engineering Schools of Medicine.
At these new schools, the applicant MUST have pre medical requirements that include
Upper level physics, linear algebra, vector analysis, differential equations and physical
chemistry- an exposure to Science at a significantly higher level than general
and organic chemistry, physics without calculus and only one semester of calculus.
I argue that NO ONE can have a creditable understanding of modern science with only
One semester of calculus- for the language of nature will always be mathematical-
as Galileo once said.
Currently, the physician workforce is composed of many men and women who
majored in English or a humanity,maybe did a humanities Masters and then did basic pre med
courses, including Organic in the Summer and Physics with only algebra.
If their non- science degree was well done and they get As and Bs in the low
level Science courses, and around a 30 old MCAT, they squeak into medical
School, especially if they are in a PC demographic.
Hence, due to prior policies, we have a significant fraction of the physician
workforce that is Scientifically illiterate, which is a non trivial part of
the reason medical practice can at times be so unscientific. (Did we
not just hear that now baby Asa, absent risk factors, should now not be
taken as cardiovascular risk reducing primary prophylaxis- thus contravening
Years of established "knowledge"?)
I am planning on returning to school to rabidly pursue a Ph.D in
Physiology and Biophysics, with as much additional graduate level
physical chemistry as I can torque into my work, because the time
is rapidly approaching for a new era in Medicine, which hopefully will
become based on principles and logic, rather than memorization and
pattern recognition. Medicine now is almost like stamp collecting.
Remember that AT Still worked at a time when Wilhelm Ostwald denied
The existence of atoms while Von Boltzmann argued passionately
for them. The arguments of 18 th century physics AND medicine
belong only in the Historical record now.
And so medicine must unify. If the arguments for unifying all residencies
are economy, efficiency, lack of duplication, and MOST IMPORTANTLY
uniform STANDARDS, can any rational thinker avoid applying the same
arguments to MEDICAL SCHOOLS as well, and State licensing exams?
Let OMM survive, whatever can be scientifically validated, as a division
Of Manual Medicine within greater medicine.
As the Supreme Court decided with "separate but equal"segregated schools
decades ago, separate is never truly equal.The logic of the Court applies
with equal force to "allopathic" and "osteopathic"medicine, and merging
residencies is the first admission of the truth in decades,
Note: first engineering school of medicine: Carle in Illinois.
in progress: Cooper Union for the advancement of Science and NYU med
NYCOM Ph.D program sharing resources with NYIT School of Engineering(2019)
