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by jac241 7y ago
To be fair to the AMA, they submitted a support letter for the 2019 bill - https://www.ama-assn.org/education/gme-funding/how-gme-fundi... . Do you have evidence of them arguing against the 2013, 2015, or 2017 ver
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by jac241 7y ago
And 50% of nurses, nurse practitioners, and PAs graduate in the bottom half of their class too. Why do you think they are not the ones whose jobs are going to be automated away? If an AI can handle the easy cases, it won't be the docto
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by jac241 7y ago
The flu vaccine is formulated each year to match the predicted strains expected to cause most human suffering that year. Influenza has a segmented RNA genome that makes it more likely to mutate and change its antigen expression. The flu vac
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by jac241 7y ago
"The AAMC strongly supports bipartisan GME legislation introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (H.R. 1763, S. 348)" - https://news.aamc.org&#
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by jac241 8y ago
Ironically, congress passed a law in 2004 to give the NRMP, the organization that runs the match, immunity from antitrust legislation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resident_Matching_Pro...
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by jac241 8y ago
In medical school, 120 hour weeks really only exist for 4th year med students who are on sub-internships in surgical specialties like neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, general surgery, etc. Students in those fields do 3 or so month long sub
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by jac241 8y ago
I am a medical student, and I have taken the MCAT. It is not just a memorization test. Each section is made up of a series of excerpts from scientific papers and questions that relate to that article. It requires you to synthesize the new i