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Ally's avatar

The problem with Medical Schools is that they no longer seem to teach medical students to actually assess the patient. There is an over reliance on tests and scans rather than good physical exam technique and taking a good H&P.

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Excellent points, Daniel. Most of the blame for the fetid state of medical schools (and I am tenured Full in one of them) lays squarely at the feet of the LCME, the accrediting body for such schools. It has changed admission requirements (for the worse), grading requirements (there aren't any, any more, largely because the admission requirements focus on SJW score, demographic score, and "distance travelled" rather than academic excellence and focus on helping every patient get better), deprecation of standardized testing (National Boards now pass/fail so they can be easily gamed) and has put in place curriculum standards that make sure that schools can NOT focus on areas of interest like some of those you mentioned.

The system is truly broken, and the rankings issue is mostly irrelevant. What is needed is a brand new, patient-care-oriented accrediting organization for medical schools. What we have now is not reparable and you will not see any changes as long as it persists. Perhaps a Florida or someone will do this properly -- we shall see.

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