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Organizers Plan Online Medical School
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."
The idea,s a bit sick (pun intended)
"Did you go to Hollywood Upstairs Medical School too?"
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
I'm so excited to have you as a patient. I never had to cut anything open in med school and this is my first chance!
Not a chance that I would go see a doctor who got their degree online.
For gross anatomy, everyone will be mailed their own copy of the Operation! board game. These guys will be very good at diagnosing and fixing charlie horses and wrenched knees.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
Just say you are studying to become a gynecologist.
-- Will program for bandwidth
Online schools deprive you of needed experience and interaction
Pssst, Bob! I accedently screwed up really big on a patient, but she does not respond to the reboot command. How do I start over?
Table-ized A.I.
Oh wait: it is
- undoware.ca
Act now, and we'll mail you a cadaver -- FREE -- with your enrollment!
"Brings a whole new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death", no?
Great, that's all I need; my doctor slips up while I'm on the operating table and he spends the next 5 minutes making motions with his hand as if to hit the "back" button on a web browser.
me: "Something wrong, Doc?"
doctor: "No.. at least... I don't think so. It's just that I've never seen a real live patient before; at least not I. R. L."
"Damn, nurse... brain surgery is sooo much easier when you can use two hands!"
nurse: "Doctor! Doctor! Have you ever had experience with this kind of disease?!
doctor: "Of course I have! Level 34, just before I grabbed the RailGun."
wife: "Doctor, is my husband... going to die?"
doctor: "Nah, if it gets too bad, I'll just pull the plug on the router and it'll look like we lost the connection. Then I'll try again."
*doctor smiles while the wife wonders what the hell he's talking about*
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
I've been using Microsoft Flight Sim since it first came out!
That makes me a pilot!
Casual Games/Downloads
I'm regestering with the nic "Hannibal Lector"
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Where do I get these textbooks?
Funnily enough, each year that particular lecture is filled to capacity with people who dress and sound a lot more like engineers than med students :)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
You went to HollyWood Upstairs Medical College too?