In one state where I lived there were 2 med schools. One accepted 1 of every 2 applicants [not the university where I was [:>)}].
Bill On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:54:48 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > accreditation is a thorny issue. > > It is nice to see the diplomas on the wall (of doctor, lawyer, > engineer, > architect) but are we sure they know what they are doing? and what > if they > don't? what recourse? > > that is why I guess that people say, when moving to a new town ask > around. > find a doc in a teaching hospital (more accreditation and more > supervision, > helping to catch the oafs). > > Friedman would say that the market will work. As long as information > is > provided (which it currently isn't. the medical world, for example > is > shrouded in cya and mystery) When a patient dies, in Friedman's > model the > next prospective patient would move to a different doctor. Today > with > cover ups, when a patient dies there is no information on why this > happened > or indeed if it happened at all. Unless of course there is a law > suit. > > arthur > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 8:44 AM > To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, > Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Harry, > > > > Go back an re-read Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. He > makes a > > strong case for getting rid of a lot of the accreditation in > society > > saying that it just builds enclaves of monopoly power. ie., > privilege. > [snip] > > It seems to me that the justification for accreditation > lies in the HUGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE, which > prevents persons from verifying the competencies of the > persons they need services from by first-person > experience of performative evidence. > > Our doctors, et al., apart from their cdredentials, > are mostly "pig in a poke"s to us. I don't see how this > can be changed in the anonymo-city. > > However, perhaps the credentialling process can be > shifted from multiple choice tests to the making and > predsentation of masterpieces. This happens to > some extent (e.g., for watchmaker trainees). But I > think the tendency is away from personal presentation > of evidence of mastery toward enhancing > Educational Testing Service's > services. > > Anoher problem is that even where supposedly > evidence of mastery is the criterion, as in the > PhD dissertation process, much of the time the > "evidence" prouced is something that means nothing > to the learner but which is of some use as > cheap labor to those who already have their > credential. I think we need to acknowledge that > many graduate students do not yet have any > really meaningful interests in their young lives, > and we need to find a way to let them > do the jobs they are training for without > jumping thru hoops. > > For the mindful god abhors untimely growth. > (--Holderlin) > > Dissertations should be optional productions, which > come when "the spirit moves" a person to have > something to say in an honorific sense. > > Besides making the creenialling process more > genuinely reasonable as part of meaningful > personal and social life, I think we also > ned to tr to minimize the situations > which require credentialling. Automobile driving > licenses are an obvious example here: The whole > instituional establishment of driver licensing > only exists because persons cannot walk to the > places they need and want to go to in their > daily lives. We need to design out of > life such regimentation-creating social > structures. -- unless, of course, we genuinely > enjoy being tested and geting credentialled and failing > to get credentialled.... "Daddy, when can I take > the SATs? I wanna! I really wanna! When, daddy, > PLEASE!" "Sorry son, but you have to go to kindergarten > first. You have to learn to be patient. You'll > get your chance to do the fun things > grownups do when you are old enough. You just > have to have some patience...." > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
