MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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A disturbing truth about medical school — and America’s future doctors
By artappraiser on Tue, 05/09/2017 - 12:13pm |By Valerie Straus @ The Washington Post, May 8
[....] News that a federal educational experiment failed to supply evidence in favor of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s school choice agenda has undoubtedly elicited schadenfreude in some Democratic circles. Somewhat lost in the story, however, is scrutiny of how students’ educational success or failure is measured.
The trend toward near-exclusive reliance on standardized testing to measure educational achievement now extends all the way to medical school. Many may not realize that the readiness of aspiring doctors to enter the world of clinical medicine is now based overwhelmingly on a single, standardized, closed-book, multiple choice test.[....]
Can't stress enough how much this bothers me. The practice of medicine is an art, not a science, therefore teaching to the test is particularly bad in this instance.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/08/a-disturbing-truth-about-medical-school-and-americas-future-doctors/?tid=pm_local_pop&utm_term=.51e96b1f2d17
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