I concur on the level that working in retail (particularly the specialty running store where I worked) was more useful as a preparation for medicine than doing research or volunteering.
I don't know how you assess ethics, but maybe the more tangible thing is civics. Whatever tests we use for entry into medical school could test content on…
I concur on the level that working in retail (particularly the specialty running store where I worked) was more useful as a preparation for medicine than doing research or volunteering.
I don't know how you assess ethics, but maybe the more tangible thing is civics. Whatever tests we use for entry into medical school could test content on how licensing and malpractice and insurance and such work, because a surprising number of doctors do not actually know very much about their own profession. And I don't know how you even frame an ethical question without understanding that medicine is a legal construct and we all operate within it.
I concur on the level that working in retail (particularly the specialty running store where I worked) was more useful as a preparation for medicine than doing research or volunteering.
I don't know how you assess ethics, but maybe the more tangible thing is civics. Whatever tests we use for entry into medical school could test content on how licensing and malpractice and insurance and such work, because a surprising number of doctors do not actually know very much about their own profession. And I don't know how you even frame an ethical question without understanding that medicine is a legal construct and we all operate within it.