This is because medical school is more akin to trade school than a scientific training program—an incredibly complex and difficult to learn trade, to be sure, and one based on applied science, but most MDs are not scientists.https://twitter.com/donaldLchi/status/1143497446703521792 …
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Replying to @gorskon
I've thought this often. Medical schools should require
#epidemiology and#statistics as core classes. But on the other side, being a scientist doesn't prepare you much at all to be a physician.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @RecoveryDoctor
The difference was particularly striking to me when I entered medical school after taking hard core science, including graduate level courses, as an undergraduate and then when I entered my PhD program after 2 years of residency.
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Replying to @gorskon
I can believe it. The lack of understanding in physicians of basic study design, epidemiology, and statistics only became clear to me when I got a Public Health degree — clear too that those things were fundamental to medical decision-making.
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Replying to @RecoveryDoctor
Not just clinical or epidemiological study design, but the general scientific method: proper controls, a testable hypothesis, basic biostatistics, etc.
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Don't get me wrong. A couple of the best scientists I ever knew had only MDs. However, they had to make an effort to learn serious science by doing, in essence, the equivalent of postdoc fellowships to gain experience.
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