Competency-based education is the next great step in education.
So, you agree with what I said? And if not, how do you propose that competency be evaluated?
They need to work regularly with other professionals like social workers, psychologists, public health professionals, etc., and almost all of those people hold advanced degrees. They need to have a large amount of time learning in order to be respected by colleagues in similar professions, so that patient care is not harmed by a broken professional relationship.
Oh, I get it..... the knowledge isn't important, it's only how long they were in school for...... and the longer someone is in school, the smarter they must be.... no one would ever respect a smart person who knew what they were talking about if they didn't hold an advance degree.
-They need to be respected by the general populace. Would you respect a doctor’s opinion if they had 1-2 years of schooling but you had 12?
I can honestly say that I have never asked my doctor how long they went to school for (or where they went to school for that matter, because some schools are better than others). They had MD after their name, which means they deserved my respect because they were qualified as medical doctors. Whether it took them 2 years, 4 year or 6 years, they still passed the requirements to be an MD
-They can’t learn the information in 2 years. Pre-med education is only 10-12 classes, but each of those classes might have significant prerequisites unless the student goes though a college prep high school. That information would all need to be learned to form a basis for the information learned in medical school. Even if a person studied 24 hrs a day for 2 years, I don’t know that they could absorb all of the information from a post-high school education to the current standard of medical education.
what are you basing that on? are you allowing your own biases cloud your opinion of what a person is capable of? I mean, you know the
youngest medical doctor in the US graduated medical school at 17, right? and there are
others who completed all that schooling in less time than you or I would need.QUOTE="joshrunkle35, post: 664115, member: 13783"]-Lastly: do you respect or trust a Paramedic any more if they currently hold advanced training/licensure/degrees? I sure do![/QUOTE]honestly? no. I have know quite a few arrogant paramedics who have bachelors in paramedicine, and they perform no better than the non-degree ones. I know of a paramedic who has a PhD (albeit in an unrelated field), but shes the same as every paramedic at the agency.
I know of a FF/PM who currently has her masters degree, but on the truck, she is treated the same as every other paramedic (although she is also the department chair of a university's pre hospital medicine program, but that's not her clinical job).
And just for the record, I know of many nurses who have associates degrees who don't think having a bachelors makes nurses anything special, and they are damn good nurses. The only reason they got it was because their employer was pushing for all nurses to have them.
Associates Degree PAs do not have only 1-2 years of post-HS education.
They are typically 2-3 year programs with 1-2 years of prereqs at mininum.
I didn't say otherwise, and almost all PA programs have prerequisite classes, but the program is still an associate degree in length. Don't believe me? check out .
http://www.mdc.edu/physicianassistantas/ (although I will stipulate that it is being rolled into a bachelors degree at a future date).
and even so, it doesn't matter: at the end the program, regardless of if you took a AAS program, BS program, or MS program, you still sit for the same PA-C exam.