To Whom in May Concern:
Firstly, has anyone conducted any in depth research into DL Learning?
Secondly, has anyone taken the results and continued with their research into DL-BcSc-MD program(s), currently being offered on the market?
Research.- Scholarly or scientific investigation or inquiry.
- Close, careful study.
Definition Courtesy of www.dictionary.com
May I obtain a copy of your initial research, and/or any consequent publication(s)? I will be happy to buy a copy of your dissertation or abstract(s)
(payments via Western Union).
I am
not looking for the usual, CONTACT YOUR STATE BOARDS MUD SLINGING, so save your virtual ink.
I am looking for objective, scientific, linear studies.............not .05 cent a second phone calls, where the author of the phone call gives us the usual "I told you so" tirades of being right, or (256 Kbs) e-mails to Medical Boards, with
AD PORTAS, rejections as proof of the non-acceptance of DL in Medical Education.
I will concede that Medical Boards are rejecting DL education in Medicine. I won't concede that the rejection is based upon objective data.
But I suspect that,
AD PORTAS REJECTION ,is based upon manifest ignorance of any conclusive and authoritive study in the field, conducted by objective proponents (a.k.a. EXPERTS), of either the "for" or "against" persuasion.
The next time one of the expert(s) attends a State Medical Board inquiry, please provide them with YOUR objective study in the field and in which recognized magazine it was published in. CC Value MD.
THANK YOU.
- THE EDITOR
I am looking for the experts, to provide the data in what ever form (raw, copied, plagiarized, or other) they/he/she have/has.
We all know the outcomes, the outcomes is the rejection of DL Learning in the eyes of the State Medical Boards. Beyond a google search, how many have actually conducted any type of in depth, objective study on,
why, it's being rejected?
Are DL students doing comparatively poor in clinicals, tests, CSA, USMLE, PLAB
versus their bricks and mortar counter-parts?
What does USMLE show? The USMLE is an objective testing format.
Can we break the test down into DL
versus B&M?
What is the truth behind the rejections?
With real data, we can narrow this down into:
- Rejection based on ignorance. I propose we call this "negative rejection."
- Rejection based on data. Data which has been objectively processed. I propose we call this "positive rejection."
One item that can be used in this study, is that DL is used in many fields, with
NO KNOWN, loss of quality in graduates ability to perform. Who say's so? Industry does. Academia does.
Yes, it's even used in nursing and in veterinary science (close counter-parts in the BASIC SCIENCES to M.D.'s). So, beyond a doubt, DL is effective. So why is DL Medicine being left to hold the bag as being
useless?
On the surface it would appear that if graduates of DL-BcSC-MD programs are able to pass objective examinations, then being penalized at the end of their educational trajectory is plain,
BIAS.
But, without the proper research...........then.........it won't be known, now will it?
Time for research to be done.