They never taught this in my medical school
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@Doctor-Phibes said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Doctor-Phibes said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
I didn't say humanities students, I said studying the humanities. You learn tricky distinctions like that by studying the humanities.
If I wanted to be an asshole I'd post a load of music played by people without humanities degrees and challenge you to find people who studied humanites who could do it better.
You're still not getting it. Try to follow along.
Being in a band, starting with covers, listening to a shitload and then writing your own stuff is "studying the humanities." So is looking at yourself, seeing that you have the rhythm of a vacuum cleaner and deciding not to rap things.
Sitting in a desk in a lecture hall is getting a degree. The two aren't the same. Sometimes they overlap; these days, mostly they don't.
Impressive bobbing and weaving there, but when people talk about Miles Davis or Beethoven they don’t typically say ‘Oh, he studied the humanities so well….’
Just the same that's what he did. That's what they fucking are.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Doctor-Phibes said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Doctor-Phibes said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
I didn't say humanities students, I said studying the humanities. You learn tricky distinctions like that by studying the humanities.
If I wanted to be an asshole I'd post a load of music played by people without humanities degrees and challenge you to find people who studied humanites who could do it better.
You're still not getting it. Try to follow along.
Being in a band, starting with covers, listening to a shitload and then writing your own stuff is "studying the humanities." So is looking at yourself, seeing that you have the rhythm of a vacuum cleaner and deciding not to rap things.
Sitting in a desk in a lecture hall is getting a degree. The two aren't the same. Sometimes they overlap; these days, mostly they don't.
Impressive bobbing and weaving there, but when people talk about Miles Davis or Beethoven they don’t typically say ‘Oh, he studied the humanities so well….’
Just the same that's what he did. That's what they fucking are.
OK, but I’m not sure that’s totally clear from your original comment. The fact that I apparently misunderstand what you meant might not actually be my fault here?
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@Horace said in They never taught this in my medical school:
I think we all learned a valuable lesson here.
Education is extremely important?
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@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
I'm saving this for the next time anyone says studying the humanities is a waste of tine.
How do you know whether the "Harvard MDs" have studied more or less humanities than other groups?
Have you compared the humanities requirements across Harvard medical school's prerequisites & curriculum and other medical schools' prerequisites & curricula?
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@Axtremus said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
I'm saving this for the next time anyone says studying the humanities is a waste of tine.
How do you know whether the "Harvard MDs" have studied more or less humanities than other groups?
I've worked with doctors. Many, many doctors.
I've seen plays written by doctors, heard music composed by doctors. And this is sadly far from the first rap I've heard from doctors.
It's incredible how categorically terrible most of them are at expressing themselves. But not all of them.
How many plays, songs and raps from doctors have you been exposed to?
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@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Axtremus said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
I'm saving this for the next time anyone says studying the humanities is a waste of tine.
How do you know whether the "Harvard MDs" have studied more or less humanities than other groups?
I've worked with doctors. Many, many doctors.
I've seen plays written by doctors, heard music composed by doctors. And this is sadly far from the first rap I've heard from doctors.
It's incredible how categorically terrible most of them are at expressing themselves. But not all of them.
How many plays, songs and raps from doctors have you been exposed to?
None of what you wrote above speaks to 'How do you know whether the "Harvard MDs" have studied more or less humanities than other groups,' does it?
What are you trying to express?
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@Axtremus said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Axtremus said in They never taught this in my medical school:
@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
I'm saving this for the next time anyone says studying the humanities is a waste of tine.
How do you know whether the "Harvard MDs" have studied more or less humanities than other groups?
I've worked with doctors. Many, many doctors.
I've seen plays written by doctors, heard music composed by doctors. And this is sadly far from the first rap I've heard from doctors.
It's incredible how categorically terrible most of them are at expressing themselves. But not all of them.
How many plays, songs and raps from doctors have you been exposed to?
None of what you wrote above speaks to 'How do you know whether the "Harvard MDs" have studied more or less humanities than other groups,' does it?
What are you trying to express?
That I don't enjoy talking with you.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in They never taught this in my medical school:
I've seen plays written by doctors, heard music composed by doctors. And this is sadly far from the first rap I've heard from doctors.
So much for 'First, do no harm'.
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Every hour you spend studying diversity, art, poetry, racial inequity in medical school is an hour you don't spend studying physiology, anatomy, pharmacology, histology.
Time is a fixed resource. Use it wisely.
Believe me, I'm all for liberal arts.
ALL. FOR. IT.
Every hour you spend studying poetry, literature, history makes you a better person. I cherished the time I spent in a grad-level music history class for two quarters.
But, does a semester's study of racial inequities make you a better plumber, a better electrician, a better doctor?
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@George-K said in They never taught this in my medical school:
Every hour you spend studying diversity, art, poetry, racial inequity in medical school is an hour you don't spend studying physiology, anatomy, pharmacology, histology.
Time is a fixed resource. Use it wisely.
Believe me, I'm all for liberal arts.
ALL. FOR. IT.
Every hour you spend studying poetry, literature, history makes you a better person. I cherished the time I spent in a grad-level music history class for two quarters.
But, does a semester's study of racial inequities make you a better plumber, a better electrician, a better doctor?
I've said this before but the US is different from the UK. Every single course I did bar one was either maths or physics, or in some cases both. The bar-one was computer programming - that was their idea of an hour off. A bachelor's degree is 3 years rather than 4. From my experience working with American engineers, I'm not convinced they know more about the arts than I do. In fact, I'm absolutely bloody certain that they don't. They're a bunch of philistines.
Which is a bit odd, really. I think that teaching people who want to get an engineering degree about English literature or music or history possibly turns it into a chore, rather than something to explore in your spare time. Stuff we do because we want to is much more likely to actually have an impact.
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The US is also somewhat unique in that a medical student is required to first get a Bachelor's degree in something/anything before he can enroll in medical school; medical school is treated as graduate study. Most other countries allow qualified students to directly enroll in medical school without first getting a Bachelor's degree.
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@Axtremus said in They never taught this in my medical school:
The US is also somewhat unique in that a medical student is required to first get a Bachelor's degree in something/anything before he can enroll in medical school; medical school is treated as graduate study. Most other countries allow qualified students to directly enroll in medical school without first getting a Bachelor's degree.
There's a graduate entry program in the UK. The standard medical degree is 5-6 years, but graduate entry program is 4 years, which I think is the same as the US.
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U should hear me rap.
I’m a gansta
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Putting the 'c' in rap.
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@Axtremus said in They never taught this in my medical school:
The US is also somewhat unique in that a medical student is required to first get a Bachelor's degree in something/anything before he can enroll in medical school; medical school is treated as graduate study. Most other countries allow qualified students to directly enroll in medical school without first getting a Bachelor's degree.
Uh, no.
A bachelor's degree is not required to attend medical school.
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@bachophile said in They never taught this in my medical school:
U should hear me rap.
I’m a gansta
American or Israeli?
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@Jolly said in They never taught this in my medical school:
A bachelor's degree is not required to attend medical school.
Back in the day, Northwestern had a "Honors Medical Program." If you were accepted into this program, and they took about 60 per year, you would attend undergraduate classes, with a heavy emphasis on sciences, for two years. After two years, you would join the "regular" 1st year medical school class. Having completed the 1st year of medical school, you would get a "BSM" degree - "Bachelor of Science in Medicine." So with undergrad and medical school, it was a 6 year program.
I was part of the 8 year program, even though I completed my BA in a bit over 3 years.
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LSU Med:
Minimum academic requirements for admission are satisfactory completion of the required subjects as specified below along with a total of ninety hours of acceptable credit hours at the time of matriculation into medical school. All coursework must be completed in a satisfactory manner, at a grade-level of C or better, in an educational institution within the United States or Canada that has been approved by an appropriate accrediting agency. If your school accepts an online course as credit toward a degree, then we will accept that course also. This applies ONLY to lecture-based courses. Any lab work should be done in person. This applies to both prerequisite and upper level science courses. The school which offers the online course must be an ACCREDITED American or Canadian university, college, or community college.
Acceptance of advanced placement for credit toward fulfilling specific requirements in the sciences (biology, chemistry, and physics) may be approved on a case-by-case basis. Transfer credit from medical schools outside of the United States is generally not permissible.