Dodgy Doctors
Every week I read an article highlighting the apparent decline in our education standards. From teaching oh-so-relevant Marxist themes in highschool English to the miserable decline in scientifically-trained teachers, the Australian education system seems to be sustaining politically and financially motivated assaults from all angles. Grimly, now our doctors appear to be suffering:
Almost three in four medical students say they are taught too little anatomy during their medical degree - and more than a third don't even think they have been taught enough about how the body works to be a competent doctor when they graduate.
A survey of more than 600 medical students also found more than half - 53.7 per cent - thought their knowledge of anatomy was inadequately assessed.
And nearly 90 per cent of students agreed that the traditional, guided style of anatomy teaching was "more effective" than the alternatives.
In many medical schools, traditional teaching has been increasingly replaced by a self-directed process where students research topics themselves in groups.
The findings - which have already been sent to the federal Government as part of a submission for its current review of medical school curriculums - are likely to reignite a controversy revealed in The Australian earlier this year, after senior doctors warned the state of anatomy teaching in Australia's medical schools was so bad that public safety was at stake.
I grew up under the belief that doctors were incredibly intelligent and all-knowing. That all changed a couple of years ago when a doctor claimed there was nothing wrong with my back (probably getting kickbacks from my employer). My employer, much to their chagrin, later found out I was telling the truth when they X-rayed my back.
And to think the government recently cut funding to science education. All this gives me a headache.
Almost three in four medical students say they are taught too little anatomy during their medical degree - and more than a third don't even think they have been taught enough about how the body works to be a competent doctor when they graduate.
A survey of more than 600 medical students also found more than half - 53.7 per cent - thought their knowledge of anatomy was inadequately assessed.
And nearly 90 per cent of students agreed that the traditional, guided style of anatomy teaching was "more effective" than the alternatives.
In many medical schools, traditional teaching has been increasingly replaced by a self-directed process where students research topics themselves in groups.
The findings - which have already been sent to the federal Government as part of a submission for its current review of medical school curriculums - are likely to reignite a controversy revealed in The Australian earlier this year, after senior doctors warned the state of anatomy teaching in Australia's medical schools was so bad that public safety was at stake.
I grew up under the belief that doctors were incredibly intelligent and all-knowing. That all changed a couple of years ago when a doctor claimed there was nothing wrong with my back (probably getting kickbacks from my employer). My employer, much to their chagrin, later found out I was telling the truth when they X-rayed my back.
And to think the government recently cut funding to science education. All this gives me a headache.
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