How so? From my understanding there’s a dedicated period of time where they’re literally next to a senior nurse and they learn every little thing the nurse does on a shift.
Never happened at my school at least. (Plus not sure how you’re arguing that shadowing as you’re describing here would be better?) Edit: maybe you’re talking about how at the very end of the program you have like a 4 week period to work 12 shifts with a nurse preceptor you’re assigned to. It was more akin to a resident/med student relationship but nursing wise. Like you aren’t shadowing, or just having someone pop in 20 mins a day to chalkboard talk, more like when you are a med student and go see patients on your own and then kinda go over it with your resident, and then see the patient together sometimes, and then work on charting side by side.
Then they are tested multiple times with someone holding a clipboard with a standard checklist.
Well for a few things yes. I also had that in medical school though.
Their clinical experience starts right away. In terms of medical education, I don’t see why we need two years of didactic education much of which is unrelated to clinical medicine before touching a patient. We can still have all those didactic components but integrate have them while a student is on their clerkship.
Well this is one thing I go back and forth on. I did think for nursing school that having didactic and clinical concurrent the whole time was better, and kind of missed that in med school. But, medicine is more cognitive work than technical skills (ignoring procedural specialties but that’s in residency more so. I’m talking about foundational medicine.) I don’t know how exactly that could work for medical school. My school did have us go to primary care office 1/2 day every 2 weeks, so that’s something. And I can still remember distinct things that I learned during M1 from that experience. Maybe if that was like a whole day a week during preclinical years? Not sure.
But anyway, by saying “they do clinical the whole time” in nursing school, yes part of the week. But you might have classroom days mon, tues, thurs and clinical days wed, fri. It’s not like nurses spend more time in clinical training just because it’s mixed into the whole time. And then you also lose continuity of patients/cases/learning because you’re jumping back and forth. And whatever you’re learning in the classroom may or may not even correlate to the clinical experience.
Have you completed your osteopathic school all the step exams and residency?
I have just graduated so yes I have completed osteopathic medical school, level 1, level 2, step 1, step 2. I have not take comlex 3 or step 3 or completed residency, which I start in a month.
I never said I was an attending, so I’m not sure what your point is.
but even without having completed residency I could compare going through nursing school and medical school and say that statement was not correct. Completing residency training will only add to the disparity in the direction of my point.