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Who’s Training Your Doctor?
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Who’s Training Your Doctor?
When you sit in a doctor’s chair, or hand your child over to a surgeon, do you ask where they went to school?
We are trained to see the degree on the wall and trust the system behind it.
But should we?
Senior IMA fellow, Dr. Jennifer Hibberd, says we need to look much harder at what is happening inside healthcare education. And she is not speaking from the sidelines.
She is a pediatric dental surgeon, Chief of Dental Surgery at one of Canada’s largest hospital networks, and a clinical instructor at the University of Toronto.
So when she says the training pipeline for doctors, dentists and nurses is being quietly weakened, we should listen.
Her new commentary in the ‘Journal of Independent Medicine’ raises serious concerns about whether future healthcare professionals are getting the depth of real clinical experience they need …or whether institutions are lowering standards, cutting corners, and producing graduates who may not be fully prepared for the responsibility placed in their hands.
We have had so many conversations recently about why the system is broken, I wonder how we tackle the big changes that need to be made in healthcare?
Read the full paper here: https://journalofindependentmedicine.org/articles/v02n03a03/
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Very good point! I taught undergraduates going into medical fields and I know the expectations in the course I taught were getting weakened slowly over time! It became more noticeable during COVID and when DEI protocols came in full throttle! When I started teaching 30 years ago, a college level course was college level. We had strong administrative backing and autonomy in course development and expectations.
When I retired it felt like high school or below. Administration micromanaging entered the classrooms. A resistance to challenging the students too much became evident in fear there would be failure or hurt feelings. In my opinion, we lost the goal of educating for competence!
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Thanks for sharing your experience @DBartonRD
Yes, that protection of college students feelings is bizarre, it teaches people that words can have an effect, when I was growing up my poarents spent time making sure that I understood words could not harm, my response to them is what mattered.
The dumbing down of all proffessions is a real concern, I wonder how we start to turn that around.
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This reminds me of something I was told years ago, on the same subject:
What do you call the guy named Michael Smith, who slept through half his classes at medical school, rarely revised, did no more work than he absolutely had to and just scraped through exams with a pass mark?
You call him DOCTOR Smith …
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I have met many people who are great at passing exams, but critical thinking is beyond them.
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