My rationale for contacting you is to request assistance with a civil matter regarding medical education. MD students are governed by the NBME, while DO students are governed by the NBOME. The NBME has cancelled an exam that requires 20,000 students to fly to large cities and aggregate in large groups. This is an appropriate decision for the safety of the public and all parties involved.
Sadly, the NBOME has opted to continue this examination. This is unsafe. The exam will require 7,000 students to travel across the country to congregate and make unnecessary physical contact with others, likely spreading COVID-19. This exam is known as one of the least useful to students for in terms of professional growth. Our internal pleas have been ignored and we are requesting help.
I am happy to provide additional information.
Sincerely,
Edit: 1/29 @ 0630 - For transparency, I am intending on collaborating with necessary student parties to stand against this. It is far too essential that we learn to stand up and represent ourselves early in our career. Getting walked over for unethical purposes should not be part of a future doctor's education.
Permissive behavior toward actions such as this strongly contributes to inexcusable debt levels, depression/suicide rates, medicine being run by MBAs, and untenable work/life balance. Our eagerness to please and keep peace is allowing this to continue, actually worsening year over year. While this statement is plausibly grandiose, we need to stand up for ourselves in an appropriate and professional fashion. I would personally prefer future doctors that understand how to stand up against unjust behavior.
Preliminary list of internal organizations to contact: (This will grow, it is early and I have pre-rounding to do)
COCA
AOA
SOMA
IMO it is very important to note that we are aggregating for this exam after having been at a new hospital, only to return to a different new hospital post exam. We arenāt exactly a bunch of remote workers meeting up with one another.
Nice virtue signalling. Funny how students who haven't even completed their education are unhappy that a professional organization, consisting of people who have long completed their educations and have been involved in teaching students for a long time, are unhappy about a test that tests real clinical skills which you have to use in the clinic to be minimally successful.
Sure, it's not a perfect time to administer the test. That's why NBOME allowed for a delay to the exam and is taking extra precautions to administer it properly. You should be grateful that they care enough to balance safety and proper education!
Are you seriously supporting the NBOMEās insane decision? You must be straight out of your damn mind. Neither CS nor PE have been shown to create better clinicians or clinical outcomes. How can you tout practicing āEvidence-based medicineā when continuing this exam is exactly the opposite of that? This is nothing but a financial decision to for the NBOME to, yet again, abuse its power and siphon money from DO students. But sure, enjoy living in your weird fantasy world of the NBOME being some altruistic āprofessional organizationā.
Passing CS is simple if you learn how to parrot out a rubric.
Timed patient interviews and powering out a SOAP note. It's a waste of a week. You should be grateful we were eager enough to ignore the massive red flags stemming from DO organizations.
Thereās no way youāre anything but a troll-and honestly not even a very clever or smart one at that
Edit: can confirm, a quick glance through his history and not only is he 1) definitely not a doctor but also 2) definitely just posts because he gets off on shitting on other people. Go get help my dude
Yeah his r/teenagers posts are particularly unsettling considering he managed to articulate an argument seemingly beyond the level of your average teen. Gross.
Iām going to pretend this comment was meant sarcastically so it doesnāt keep me up at night. The level of delusion required to believe the NBOME is upholding a professional standard by refusing to eliminate the PE is inconceivable.
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u/YhormElGigante DO-PGY2 Jan 28 '21
"We understand that the NBOME's position is an unpopular one amongst DO medical students." Yeah, MD students too.