Would you like an M.D. license and fries with this order?
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at lubbockonline.com ...
Robert McNamara would be so proud of little Obummer!
Why not, how much training does it require to prescribe two aspirin.
Keep the chapter on craws. When I was there they was always gettin' sumpin' stuck in their craw.
Would you like an M.D. license and fries with this order?
Warning.. Look at your doctors diploma and leave if he is a drive through doc..
Big fat internet pipelines to India, then:
“Doctor Ravi will see you shortly, please step closely and look into the telemedicine camera. Thankyouveddymuch.”
Great minds..I just wrote about this ...LOL
Must be where all the ACORN nimwits will end up.
People used to be prosecuted for stuff like this.
But now, it doesn’t take much to hand out a red or blue pill.
I’ve heard that India trains doctors much faster than we do, and many of them end up here in medical practice. How fast do they train doctors?
Just get rid of all those clinical rotations and get ‘em out on the field! Whoever wanted “cheap” is going to GET “cheap”!/sarcasm
"What you need, what you need, is a change of habit!"
I read somewhere that Obamacare is modeled after the Soviet system. Apparently under the soviet system most healthcare workers/doctors were the equivalent of our school nurses.
Glenn E. Curtis, ed. Russia: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1996.
“In 1986 the Soviet Union had about 1.2 million doctors and about 3.2 million paramedical and nursing personnel. Medical training emphasized practical work over basic research and pure science; only nine medical institutes were attached to universities. In the late 1980s, the average doctor’s salary was roughly comparable to that of the average industrial worker. In 1996 the average Moscow specialist made about US$75 per month, and senior doctors made about US$150 per month. Paramedics and nurses needed only two years of training and no scientific background; however, in rural areas, which suffered a shortage of doctors, such individuals often were the only medical personnel available.
Despite the nominally equitable nature of Soviet socialized medicine, the actual system was highly stratified according to location, with far inferior care and facilities available in rural areas, and especially according to political status. The Ministry of Health maintained a completely separate, vastly superior system of clinics, hospitals, and sanatoriums for top party and government officials and other elite groups such as writers, actors, musicians, and artists.”
http://countrystudies.us/russia/53.htm
LOL! My 37 year old nephew just finished his last stint of medical traing in Dec. of 2008 in Harvard's thorasic surgery program at Mass. General. He started his first permanent job last September with the local Beaumont hospital system in Royal Oak.......
He's almost old enough to retire....(well not really but you know what I mean)
The fast track to medical degrees makes about as much sense as hiring a mechanic whose only experience is high school auto mechanics class.
And you know, I hear more complaints about doctors office charges than I do about the local plumber who charges $70 per hour or the rates at the local car dealership service department.
Save some time ... just upgrade the licenses of the people who man the Quick Response Units across the once-fruited plain.
Beat me to it!
Castro has been turning them out with 2 years of "medical school". And he only pays them $22 per month. What a deal!
EEOC docs.
College quotas.
No thanks, I’ll follow Rush, and others who are already looking into health vacations.
Good ground floor investments.
This wasn’t “healthcare reform”, it was a total healthcare restructuring.
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