Posted on 03/25/2010 8:33:45 AM PDT by RaiderRose
Surgeons, cardiologists and psychiatrists often take center stage in the medical field.
But a new program at Texas Tech's Health Sciences Center is all about family doctors.
The university unveiled Tuesday a three-year medical degree to help address a shortage of primary care physicians in West Texas and across the nation. The new program will allow medical students to complete their degree in three years, rather than the typical four. They'll also receive a $13,000 scholarship to cover tuition and fees during their first year, Tech Chancellor Kent Hance said.
"They get a scholarship in the first year, and don't have to take the fourth year, so the cost is half," Hance said at a Tuesday press conference. "This is really innovative, and to see we're the first ones doing it makes me really proud."
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I don’t know, not sure I want to know...lol But, I would say, if the health care bill is implemented. And we have a mass exodus of doctors, we will probably see them stream line school for docs and possibly be so desperate for them they will accept just about anybody.
Indian docs have to complete a residency here in the US before they can be licensed to practice. Regardless of their training in India, they have to complete a full training program here.
Will Planned Parenthood speak up when there are more botched legal abortions?
Those are called Physician Assistants, aren’t they?
Of course they don’t dare address the fact that too many qualified people are kept from pursuing a medical education because of the admissions process.
Nope, Big Murder's interest is in killing, they don't really differentiate the ages of their victims -- twenty weeks old or twenty years old, they simply don't care.
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There is no ‘Doctor’ shortage.
There is in fact an extreme excess of the kind of pill pushers that such a program will produce.
Why not just educate our existing doctors in human nutrition so that they can heal rather than ‘medicate?’
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They did this during WWII. A doctor that I knew when I was growing up graduated college in 1940 and had his MD in 1943.
There’s a reason why the doctors and janitors in hospitals in the USSR got paid the same.
So family doctors - the ones who first see us and are the first to have the initial idea of diagnosis - don’t need to be as well-trained. What a country!
We used to joke about the University Health Center’s PA, who saw all the students - sudafed will solve all problems. Cold - sudafed, broken leg -sudafed, pregnant - sudafed. It was the wonder drug of the UHC.
LOL
Thanks for the mention.
Texas Tech is in my back yard. They are far from a liberal college!
Doc in the Box
Next: A gub-mint program to teach fire safety to three-year-olds by handing them a book of matches... :-(
There you go. LOL
You’ve obviously got an advanced degree.
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