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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMO one of the largest factors is that medical school (like law school) does not screen for the factors that make for a good practitioner and over relies on grades and test scores. This tends to lead to a glut of medical students with astronomical scores and low social skills / emotional IQ. I don’t care as much about the role of foreign trained physicians as the fact that the structure of premedical and medical education weeds out kids who would be truly terrific doctors, particularly in primary care / peds / geriatrics (where the need is highest and “soft skills” are hugely important. I just finished a non-medical masters program at a top medical school. I was horrified at the utter lack of social skills amongst the so called best and brightest and it wasn’t just the international students by a long shot. Truly, it was so bad I worried for my future medical care. I think something has to change! [/quote]

This is your opinion. I would rather go to a doctor who is on top of their knowledge, up to date on latest research in their field, good diagnostician, and is thorough. So called “soft skills” rank below all of the above. I would also prefer to trust my life in the hands of an A student rather than a B student. [/quote]

+1. Soft skills are okay as long as you are getting a flu shot or being treated for a simple sickness.  When a patient is facing life or death situation as in a cancer patient, soft skills at the expense of top notch research knowledge is no good.  [b]The doctor in the later case needs to be thoroughly aware of latest research, cutting-edge cancer treatments, latest drugs, even latest clinical trials underway, [/b]etc.  It doesn't cut to say "as long as the doctors are republicans" a la Ronald Reagan.[/quote]

And yet few of them are. [/quote]

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