But are there parents rich?
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Something I think about after seeing such titles is the fact that education system curriculums have gotten insane around the world. Kids study 3 times more than what I had to study back then. Nearly all are failing. We are really pushing the human limits here.
Yeah that's what I've been saving for at least a decade. Every company I worked for has feature creep in what you are expected to be an expert in and at a certain point you don't actually know anything you're just vaguely aware of a lot of different things.
Meh, it just says new exam was introduces and a lot of students failed. This just means the schools are not good at preparing students for this exam, not that they don't prepare for practicing medicine. I would say it's normal that universities will need time to adapt their courses to the requirements of the exams. Maybe students are not well prepared for the format or maybe the just need to put greater focus on different parts of the curriculum. I don't think this means that graduates are somehow less prepared, just that the new exam is another barrier for them to begin practice which means it will slow down induction of new doctors into the workforce. Hopefully they will adapt fast and this will not have any long term repercussions.
Framed differently, it could mean the new exam is a poor indicator of readiness to practice medicine.
Exactly. Impossible to tell from this article alone.
It could be either way.
In a for profit setting when those who do the work are the very same people/institutions who measure the quality of that work (in this case schools which both teach something and then measure how well that something was taught), it's not at all uncommon that the measuring methodology gets changed over time to yield better results for the same work rather than the work changing to improve the results in the existing measurement methodology.
This is why independent measuring of results is a thing.
In this case to know for sure we would have to get the opinions of existing medical practicioners who have worked side by side with recent graduates from these and other schools - if they tend to see graduates from these schools as coming in worse prepared than those from other schools, then this outcome we saw is probably due to the kind of situation I described above.
Always take these stories with a grain of salt. Especially with a salacious headline such as "organization shocked"
graduate
lack basic knowledge
Why are they graduating in the first place? Who is passing these students? Stop passing students who can't show they learned anything, maybe? Novel idea, I know.
They... Are? Seems like a lot of people responding aren't reading the article, so:
- Brazil is huge, and has the largest public healthcare system in the world.
- This is the first time they've conducted a national test against medical universities
- They are not punishing students, but the universities, and restricting new enrollment at them
And no, they are not all private institutions.
Seems like a lot of people responding aren't reading the article, so
You're insinuating I didn't read the article. 😛 But you're right, I didn't, because the statement I was referring to is right in the title.
How are they "about to graduate" if teachers weren't passing them when they shouldn't have, if they lack basic knowledge? You shouldn't be reaching the end of your medical programme about to graduate if you haven't passed any courses. 🤷♂️
Corruuuuuption!
Americans, pay attention, because this is where you're headed in speed run fashion
speed run fashion
I believe we USians invented the model.
Aha your president represents this exact form of corruption too
All of them, really. This one just hasn't enough game or reason to hide it.
His brain is too hollow innit
It's mostly private institutions passing people because they just care about the money and nothing else.
Source? The literal subtitle of the article says it's private and public institutions.
Try reading beyond the subtitle
Middle of the article:
The medicine schools with the worst scores are mostly municipally owned (created and managed by city councils) or ...
Sooo...
Cherry picking huh? Municipal are the smallest and least funded public universities here, the major institutions are all state and federal level, to be honest I didn't even know there were municipal ones.
"It’s no surprise that federal public universities have received the highest marks; they are universally recognized as the best. But the evaluation of medical programs has also revealed that tuition fees can be inversely proportional to the quality of the education being offered. Medicine schools that scored the lowest (1 or 2 on a scale of 1-5) charge each student between $1,100 and $2,600 a month, according to a detailed analysis by Veja magazine. This is veritable fortune in a country where the minimum wage is $313 a month."
Those institutions need to lose their accreditation then.
They are restricting new enrollment for now while they make other plans. Removing accreditation would punish the students more than the system. Also, they aren't all private.
That exam wasnt created for that and there is a very difficult exam to get a residency which is required for more 'complex' doctor jobs, so people didnt see the need for that until now. They are working on changes though that could involve shutting down courses that fail to meet the necessary standards
It’s no surprise that federal public universities have received the highest marks; they are universally recognized as the best. But the evaluation of medical programs has also revealed that tuition fees can be inversely proportional to the quality of the education being offered. Medicine schools that scored the lowest (1 or 2 on a scale of 1-5) charge each student between $1,100 and $2,600 a month, according to a detailed analysis by Veja magazine. This is veritable fortune in a country where the minimum wage is $313 a month.
How can you charge so much compared to their minimum wage and still be so bad?
kinda like carribean ones, and likely wont be eligble for praticing medicine in the states, because they have much more stringent requirements, which tend to ignore "diploma-mill like medical schools". if you're a foreign trained"MD that is not from the UK, aus, EU , canada" you will have a extremely hard time to pratice in the states or in any of those countries.
Ah, the American approach
Ah, the ~~American~~ Capitalist approach
Ftfy
Trust fund babies. Just like here.
Students that are paying a fortune can expect and demand high grades for little work, they’re paying extra for the “deluxe” degree where all the hard stuff is done for them. It’s really common with for-profit universities.
I've studied at a public university in Brazil. Students from private schools were always mocked as being less intelligent and hardworking, starting with the selection process to get in: since everyone wants an education free of cost, the best students are selected for public schools.
But still, I'm pretty sure it's less of a matter of quality of education, and more of a lack of interest from students combined with a systematic problem of private schools. Hopefully they're able to require passing this exam to rectify this situation. Currently, that already happens for law schools.
I mean... American minimum wage comes out to $1256 monthly (assuming full-time, and that's pre-tax). Community college comes in pretty cheap at $450 a month on average, but four year universities come up to $4,800 on average (assuming full-time enrollment for both). The cheapest MD programs I can find are still close to twice the minimum wage, and that's assuming you get in-state tuition, since out of state is usually 2-3x more.
Try $290 monthly minimum wage. This is Brazil not America in the article. Unless you're saying It's better ratio of wage to tuition than America, which is not hard
It's about the same is what I was saying, yeah
And that doesn't include books and other necessary materials.
I've found in higher education that many programs that act as diploma mills charge a lot because they can. They know the students are just looking for the degree and that the school is probably their only choice.
Tax your rich, investigate corruption, close the loopholes.
The global economy is so broken that there's barely financial incentive to become a doctor anymore. The system only sustained for so long because we outsourced medical training to places like South Africa.