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Incidentally, when I worked for a college we spent some time investigating Healthcare IT possibilities. Speaking to hospital hiring managers, the general conse

Incidentally, when I worked for a college we spent some time investigating Healthcare IT possibilities. Speaking to hospital hiring managers, the general consensus was that they'd like to take someone with a healthcare certification (RN, etc) and train them to be a programmer, database administrator, or IT support person instead of hiring a skilled technologist and training them in healthcare. I've noticed this in practice as well; one of my friends is a pharmacist who moved into an IT project management role at his facility. They would have never considered a non-healthcare professional for that role, is what I understand.

lifeisstillgood 13y ago
I have long asserted software development is like literacy - it's something everyone will do and will bring enormous benefits to future humankind This approach of Teaching the thing that will take less time is intereting
- taproot 13y ago
  I have to agree with this sentiment all throughout my studies of comp sci i felt the amount of study required was very small to that of other science or really any degrees. After being a developer for almost a decade in various roles ive found the thing that i enjoy most is the learning new domain knowledge at each business. Sure ive picked up a lot of new tech knowledge along the way but the thing that takes the most time is always business knowledge, needs, usability, and industry domain knowledge. Further to that many universities have started adding tech study to the courses. I guess they got one too many requests for managers who knew sql spreadsheets?
  - mathattack 13y ago
    My impression (could be because I went to a non-engineering school?) was that computer science had the most work of any major. Certainly much more than anything out of the business school, and most non-science. Perhaps Physics could have had more work, but I don't think biology or chemistry did. Things could be different at other schools though.

lifeisstillgood 13y ago

I have long asserted software development is like literacy - it's something everyone will do and will bring enormous benefits to future humankind This approach of Teaching the thing that will take less time is intereting

taproot 13y ago
I have to agree with this sentiment all throughout my studies of comp sci i felt the amount of study required was very small to that of other science or really any degrees. After being a developer for almost a decade in various roles ive found the thing that i enjoy most is the learning new domain knowledge at each business. Sure ive picked up a lot of new tech knowledge along the way but the thing that takes the most time is always business knowledge, needs, usability, and industry domain knowledge. Further to that many universities have started adding tech study to the courses. I guess they got one too many requests for managers who knew sql spreadsheets?
- mathattack 13y ago
  My impression (could be because I went to a non-engineering school?) was that computer science had the most work of any major. Certainly much more than anything out of the business school, and most non-science. Perhaps Physics could have had more work, but I don't think biology or chemistry did. Things could be different at other schools though.