Ontario medical schools consider shorter training
I’m glad I waited a few weeks to write about this, because now the irony is ever so more delightful!
Apparently 4 and 5 year olds need more institutionalized time, but medical students can get away with less.
Reported in the National Post, Medical schools consider shorter training by Pauline Tam, Canwest News Service, Published: Sunday, November 18, 2007:
Under pressure to produce doctors more quickly, Canada’s medical schools are weighing the merits of allowing students without undergraduate degrees to enroll in physician training.
The schools are also considering shortening the time it takes to train doctors.
If nothing else, it makes for an interesting juxtaposition with the Ontario government’s plan for full-day kindergarten. But, the consequences of this change could be quite spectacular.
Arguments against schooling and credentialism, specifically against post-secondary level studies (university, college etc.) generally come with the disclaimer, “Of course, if you want to be a doctor, you need to jump through all the hoops.”
As much as society may now be accepting of the drop-outs-turned-successes or the life-long self-educated, the medical profession is the one that you just can’t mess with. They’re doctors after all! We need them to be up to their necks in degrees, certifications, and credentials.
If we are willing to rethink how we educate/train/credential doctors, then all bets are off — no profession is too sacred to touch!
And that’s good news for homeschoolers, who may expect to eventually benefit from a trickle-down effect: if the medical profession is taking a more needs-based approach to admission, surely other fields who need or value competent practitioners can feel comfortable relaxing arbitrary standards, too.
It just got pretty darn exciting in the world of credentialism.
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