It's so nice to be in tech where comparatively we let the free market figure out how to properly evaluate candidates; many companies have moved away from pure a

It's so nice to be in tech where comparatively we let the free market figure out how to properly evaluate candidates; many companies have moved away from pure algorithm problems (the equivalent of testing) because relying solely on them misses a lot of important factors. The fundamental problem with medicine that creates these dynamics is artificial supply constraints created by licensing regimes (I've yet to figure out how or why a MD is so much better than a PA for family medicine). Absent that, the market would just figure things out. There's no particular reason to believe high test scores are 100% correlated with future doctor quality given that lots of other factors go into being a doctor - and yet medical schools have historically relied on this. On the other hand, there's also no particular reason to believe the best doctors will be equally distributed across whatever splicing and dicing of the population you perform.