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(...) there are far fewer medical rounds being conducted for second year students than the administration would like.

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The only way to learn in medicine is by doing, and these cuts are threatening to produce medical professionals that are not adequately trained.

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so med students from LSU will be less competitive when applying for residency?

residency programs will look unfavorably upon the students coming from lsu because they know they have less experience?

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Only in recent years have students even set foot inside the hospital, much less participate on rounds.

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A prominent surgery professor is keen about saying "the OR is the last place you should be learning how to do a procedure." i.e. know your shite before you set foot in the OR. Nothing will ever replace getting blood on your gloves from a learning standpoint, but it's definitely not the only way ot learn and should be the last step in learning something. As an example, did you learn how to tie knots in the OR with a patient sitting there with an open abdomen? No, you learn knot tying outside of the OR and you perfect it there, then you show it off in the OR once it's honed.

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The big risk is LSU School of Medicine losing its accreditation. My hope is that the administration will not let that happen, but there is a limit to how much the system can withstand in such a short amount of time.

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That is a possibility. The big risk is LSU School of Medicine losing its accreditation. My hope is that the administration will not let that happen, but there is a limit to how much the system can withstand in such a short amount of time.

Medical students cannot simply transfer medical schools. I am not really sure what would happen if your school loses accreditation in the middle of your education, as it is pretty unprecedented. But it would essentially entail $100,000 and 3 years of your life invested in learning a ridiculous amount of information all for a worthless diploma from a defunct institution.

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Only in recent years have students even set foot inside the hospital, much less participate on rounds.

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You have no idea what you are talking about.

If you are referring to 2nd year medical students only, it may be a relatively recent trend, but is still widely accepted and LSU is far behind the curve relative to other medical schools.

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You have no idea what you are talking about.

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Only in recent years have students even set foot inside the hospital, much less participate on rounds.

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You have no idea what you are talking about.

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dude sorry your parents made more choices, i really am, but its not my problem. im not asking people to make good decisions when they are 14-15 but by the time they are 18 everybody should realize what choices should be made to help them. Listen im not mad people are poor, there will always be poor, but most are there due to bad decisions both as a teenager and as an adult. In the end its none of my business though and I could care less I just dont want to have to give them my money that I work for. They didnt work for it, I did. I guess im an a-hole for asking everybody to pay for their own shelter, their health, their own food, their own everything. I know its a novel concept but personal responsibility is the direction this country needs to go in.

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ER-2. The present and anticipated financial resources of a medical education program must be adequate to sustain a sound program of medical education and to accomplish other programmatic and institutional goals.

ER-6. A medical education program must have, or be assured the use of, appropriate resources for the clinical instruction of its medical students.

ER-7. Each hospital or other clinical facility of a medical education program that serves as a major instructional site for medical student education must have appropriate instructional facilities and information resources.

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Edit: And yes, I instantly assumed you were an idiot when you said, "Only in recent years have students even set foot inside the hospital"

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Second years are currently required to join rounds in the hospital.

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I hear many assurances that it is a worst case scenario, but I have heard many empty assurances over the past four years.

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but I think some fear is warranted for someone who is just starting out and has spent HIS entire undergraduate career hearing news of budget cuts and cannot help but imagine an apparent future with more of the same.

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No for-profit chain wants to touch any hospital that has a majority of Caid patients.



Not sure what hopsital you work at, but where I work, we make a nice margin on Caid NICU babies, in fact we are always looking how to drive that business to our facilities.

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Its ok you don't understand. You were born on the 3rd base, people like you cry the loudest when you finally get smacked with some real adversity.

But for now you can continue spouting off your "personal responsibility/I can't pay taxes because I gots to buy a new shoe" mantra. Good thing most of the humane race has evolved past that thought.

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congrats on being a statiest and believing in state sponsored theft. really....congrats on that.

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