4 ms·
My parents are both practicing physicians, and I am a bootcamp graduated developer. We have talked about this at length, and their conclusion is that there is n
by _JC_Denton 7y ago
My parents are both practicing physicians, and I am a bootcamp graduated developer. We have talked about this at length, and their conclusion is that there is no real reason why parts of medical education can't be done in a similar manner.
90% of what they learned in medical school is irrelevant to their specialties, and the vast majority of the medicine they practiced was learned 'on the job'.
Medical education is heavily regulated and controlled by licensing organizations, and this is the primary reason why there would never be a disruption in the education model like this. Whether or not this a good thing is tough to answer.
- slumdev 7y agoParts of the medical field are done in a similar manner. We call them nurses, PAs, and paramedics. And every single one of them has a training program already more rigorous than most bootcamps.
- _JC_Denton 7y agoYou are right, and even doctors learn most of their practice on the job. It makes you wonder about the value of 4-year medical school relative to the high cost.
- gowld 7y agoEntry-level Emergency Medical Response training is 90 hrs. https://www.emergenthealth.org/ems-education/ems-licensure-courses/emergency-medical-responder-emr-course https://www.emergenthealth.org/ems-education/ems-licensure-c... This is equivalent to coding bootcamp.
- slumdev 7y agoAn EMT-Basic's scope of practice is so small, there isn't an analogy applicable to software. If a doctor is equivalent to a software engineer, than an EMT is equivalent to a business analyst who can only work on 3% of your projects and is only present a few hours per week. I have nothing against EMTs. I earned an EMT-Basic license a number of years back.
- jki275 7y agoNurses get BS degrees, PAs go to med school. EMTs don’t have a high bar to entry, but their scope of work is very limited.
- mcguire 7y agoOn the other hand, knowing what not to do is sometimes more important than what to do. https://dp.la/exhibitions/patent-medicine/ https://dp.la/exhibitions/patent-medicine/
- earlINmeyerkeg 7y agoYeah I was gonna say this too. Part of the point of making the process convoluted is to sort of "vet" the people who want to peddle nonsense, and people who legitimately understand how things react with the human body.