Organizers Plan Online Medical School

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 10, 2002 @10:46AM from the patient-died-you-must-reload-a-saved-game dept.

slashdot_commentator writes "Job has you down? Thinking of starting a second career? How about finally getting that medical degree you've been putting off? A group of more than 50 schools in 16 countries are working to create an online medical school, in part to combat the "brain drain" that occurs when medical students go abroad for their education but do not return later. ... Organizers said that because degrees would be granted by individual participating schools, all of which are accredited, students should not have to worry about accreditation problems."

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Re:Bad idea by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-10 11:52 · Score: -1, Flamebait

It isn't just the third world, Tiger. Here in Canada we import our crappy doctors from the third world and then send our good doctors to the US where they can make more money. Of course that's what we get for having socialized healthcare.

And our elite software developers generally make about half of what the average American "IT professional" gets. I'd have half a mind to cross the border myself if it wasn't so dirty and crime-ridden.