Student who have the necessary academic background (math, physics, chemistry, biology) should be allowed to enter medical school without spending 4 years to get a B.A.
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A lot of medical school could be done on line, with Sylvan Center testing, and regularly scheduled meetings of students for labs and recitations.
About 300 years ago, when I was freshman in college, I started out as a Journalism major. For that program you were designated “PRJ” or pre-journalism for 2 years, then were accepted into the program and completed the major in the remaining 2 years of the 4-year undergraduate program. I became somewhat disappointed in the program in my sophomore year and changed my major to economics, and really have never looked back on the decision to pursue something other than journalism.
While pursuing advanced degrees in business and a law degree - I formed the opinion that a field like journalism, more so than any other field, should require an undergraduate degree before entry. Those who populate our media today are profoundly and consistently ignorant of science, economics, accounting, law, and so many other areas of knowledge that it makes your head spin to read what passes for newspaper reporting or what appears on television as “journalism.” I think that a professional writer or journalist should demonstrate some command of a discipline (science, engineering, statistics, math, literature, biochemistry, etc.), and then learn to write for a particular media. What we have today are so many “journalists” who can swallow whole hog some outrageous claim about a new source of “green” energy or hydrogen powered autos, and then regurgitate it whole in print or on television - because they do not know the term “thermodynamics”, much less understand why it makes many of the energy related claims they are confronted with - fraudulent or impossible on their face.
I generally agree that academia has padded their business with the requirement that all professional programs build on a bachelor’s degree - but I think journalism is an exception. It is palpable that they need help, in the form of more training and better rigor in terms of analytical and interpretive skills.