ucberk, almost forgot. . .by Career Changer (no login)The NP student in my statistics class also told me that NP students need a physician to "sponsor" them (i.e, agree to let the NP student shadow him/her during the clinical part of the curriculum, or the preceptorship) prior to admission in the program. Other practitioners (i.e., MD, DO, DMP, OD, PA) do not need such a thing because as part of their curricula, they receive this training through the medical schools themselves via the clinical portion of their studies, and this is not limited to 1 physician or 1 clinical speciality (though DMP's and OD's are specialists, they usually get exposure to all aspects of clinical medicine, especially systemic diseases that tend to manifest themselves the most within those specialities); this is the medical model. All training occurs within the medical school and affiliated hospitals and clinics for the clinical phases of their respective programs. Also, this NP student was in my graduate statistics class (required for the NP degree) at a non-medical school university. Now really, (not to bad-mouth NP's), how many medical practitioners take courses concurrently at a non-medical school while completing a medical practitioner program? (Though the t-test and ANOVA do come in handy when reading research journals, they are of little use for diagnosing and treating the patient. An undergrad statistics course would provide enough knowledge of stats to understand the medical journals.) Though you may not be aware of it from your observations, there is a big difference in the training. Talk to them (MD's, DO's, DMP's, OD's PA's and NP's) and ask them the differences. from IP address 64.12.96.200 Goto Forum Home |
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| Let's not post about things we don' tknow about | Ahem on Sep 6, 1:05 AM |
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| TUSM and TUSPM | TUSM C/O 2006 on Sep 6, 6:48 PM |
| You LIE!! | Medical Podiatrist on Sep 6, 10:25 PM |
| MEDICAL PODIATRIST? | Anonymous on Sep 9, 10:01 AM |
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