> > - American Residents, on completion of their program
> > and passing exams are
> > the equivalent of Consultants in the UK. This is
> > despite the major
> > difference in number of years of training from end
> > of med school to this
> > point (many more here), because their system (they
> > say) does not waste
> > trainnees' time by USING them, it merely intensively
> > trains them.
> > - UK medical graduates, as they leave med school,
> > are inferior to the
> > American graduates in clinical skills, etc.
> > I'll let you know what I think, but I'm looking for
> > opinions for now...
As regards the brevity of the US medical degree itself, I have no doubt that
a graduate can learn more in 4 years than a school leaver can in 5. I have
been discussing the length of postgrad training thing with a few American
Docs (I am Boston for a bit, so a plentiful supply of them ...)
(1) I am told most ER Residents work c100 hours weeks for the 3 years (or
so) that they are residents. Forward thinking New York has limited this to
c70, a law which is generally ignored.
(2) Trainee's do not agree at all with the assertion that they are not
'used' in that time, whatever the official line might be!
(3) 'Education' comprises the usual log book, 2 hrs a week formal teaching
BUT with admittedly more active senior review of 'every' patient.
Seems to me that the US philosophy boils down to "work twice as many hours
for half as long".
Jon Bury
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