February 6, 2009
New Medical-School Programs Put Students on a Fast Track to the White Coat
In January, California's lieutenant governor proposed a fast-track medical school that would shave three years off the training needed to become a physician. It wasn't the first time such an idea had raised eyebrows.
His proposal, for a hoped-for medical school at the University of California at Merced, struck some medical educators as both unrealistic and unwise, for it drastically compresses the eight years it usually takes to earn an M.D. (It typically takes four years of
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