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How medical school fails students

Sensible Medicine

Let me discuss the ways in which medical school fails students. These essays will be about how institutions, particularly academic medical leaders, fail doctors in training. The pre-medical curriculum is tangential to medicine at best. Once students get to medical school we make them memorize loads of irrelevant trivia.

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Can We Select “Better” Residents?

Sensible Medicine

There are many more people competing for slots in medical school and residency and the number of “slots” have increased at a slower pace than the applicants. They spend money on test prep courses and needle their teachers into inflating grades. Because it is more competitive to get to where they are.

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Navigating the Complexities of Social Admissions in Healthcare

EvidenceCare

Social Admission vs. Medical Necessity In healthcare, the term “social admission” signifies instances where patients find themselves admitted to a hospital primarily for non-medical reasons. However, these admissions come with their own set of difficulties, particularly in the realm of Medicare coverage and reimbursement.

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Letters of Recommendation Should Not Be a Component in Residency Selection

Sensible Medicine

It was believed that being a doctor meant you had to remember a great number of obscure things, and so we designed tests that heavily weighted memorization. We restricted medical school to undergraduates who excelled in biology, chemistry, and physics because doctors were also expected to be scientists.

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Admissions Tip: Be Yourself!

Accepted Blog

How would you like to know the one thing that admissions committee members really want from applicants? A surefire way to test the waters is asking someone else to read it. By Judy Gruen, former Accepted admissions consultant. Want an admissions expert help you get accepted? Click here to get in touch!

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STRONG HF – A Positive Trial that Does Not Help Clinical Medicine

Sensible Medicine

The worry I have about medical science is that a lot of our experiments produce little to no knowledge. Trials select their patients, test the drugs in run-in periods and use research coordinators to help patients navigate complex health systems. Because there is a lot more going on than only medical prescribing. Why is that?

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Friday Reflection 25: The Advice I’d Like to Give a Student Entering Medical School

Sensible Medicine

One of the many privileges of being a physician, and a professor of medicine at a “prestigious” medical school, is getting to talk to young people who are considering a career in medicine. Will the admissions committee frown on this? [2] After taking his history and doing his physical exam, I recommended HIV testing.