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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I find it hard to believe the 2-3 extra years of schooling our doctors require makes them better at their jobs than doctors in Europe.
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That's another good point. We're forcing doctors to do an entire undergrad degree, then do a 4 year medical program, then do a residency, of at least 2 years.
I find it hard to believe we couldn't streamline that 10 year process into a 5-6 year process, specifically to churn out family doctors.
For various specialists, particularly surgeons, we'd obviously want a longer training process. Neurosurgery has a 6-7 year residency program with many doing specialty training afterwards. Totally different situation than what's required of a family doctor though. We want people who are smart/rational and have had good training, but forcing them into 10 years of education, only about half of which directly applies to their actual medical practice seems absurd.