It blows my mind that we’re denying qualified candidates a career in medicine. We’re short 22,000 doctors and 28,000 nurses.
We should have a full court press from the federal and provincial governments to train those professionals. And recognizing foreign credentials (etc).
With that kind of shortage, I will not be surprised to see more doctors and nurses from the US move to Canada soon. The brain drain in the US is going to be something awful.
The provinces only have so many spots available for med students, and there are limited spots for residency for all new doctors.
I totally understand that. But given the shit situation we’re in, we should start looking for ways to train more docs than are leaving the profession.
The way to train more docs is to build more medical schools, more hospitals. Gotta lay out the big money for that!
The other problem we have is the demographic bubble. The population is still aging. As the boomers approach their 80s the medical costs of caring for them will rise exponentially.
build more medical schools, more hospitals. Gotta lay out the big money for that!
I’m all for that!
test takers are [only] told which of four tiers they fall into, from highest to lowest — relative to other people taking the test at the same time
Which means that you could theoretically take the test twice, give exactly the same answers, and score in the highest tier one time and in the lowest tier the other. How is this a useful tool for evaluating anything?
Makes sense if you run it once per year and use the results to determine the admissions list. This assumes your goal is to maximize the number of doctors trained each year given a limited number of slots available. If you can take it whenever you want and it is just another hurdle to get into med school, then I’m not sure what value your score relative to your cohort is. Maybe it assumes all classes should have equally capable applicants, and since the content of a test would necessarily change to prevent cheating, they can’t guarantee that all tests will be of equal difficulty. So to even that out, they just take the top performers from each cohort.
There is zero chance this personality test doesn’t isn’t also biased based on ethnicity, gender, and disability status. It is absolutely certain that it is. All opaque personality tests like these always are.
This is a situational judgement test, not a personality test, they are not the same thing
