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NRMP
The NRMP identifies six "types" of applicants for NRMP matching positions.
U.S. Allopathic
Canadian
U.S. Osteopathic
US born FMG
Non-US born FMG
Fifth Pathway
Source:
Results and Data February 2008 www.nrmp.org
I propose each one of the these types be considered a pathway for entry into the US physician education and training system. Possibly the two foreign educated category be combined into one "IMG" category (since there's already one article on this.)
Bryan HoppingT 13:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Those are pathways to this topic, not within this topic.
Antelantalk 18:17, 20 March 2008 (UTC)reply
The topic is physician education and training. Physicians in the United States are educated at two types of U.S. medical schools. The may also be educated internationally and permitted to enter the U.S. training system via various pathways.
Bryan HoppingT 19:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Please see the question below. The point is that you are creating redundancies.
Antelantalk 19:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)reply
As you can see, the breakdown of pathways (4 at present), differs from the breakdown of degrees (2 at present).
Bryan HoppingT 19:17, 20 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Yes, but a better formulation than having "pathways" and "degrees" would be "degrees" and "additional pathways", adding in the 2 beyond the traditional US MD and DO degrees. It avoids linking to 2 articles that are not actually about US physician education.
Antelantalk 01:18, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Which two articles are not related to the education & training of US physicians?
Bryan HoppingT 02:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
The ones that you keep reinserting, as one might have imagined. And based on that response, I can't tell if you understood what I was saying.
Antelantalk 12:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
The article
Osteopathic medicine in the United States discusses medical school and training, rather heavily. The article
allopathic, though very incomplete at the moment, does mention several bodies of great import to physician education and training in the United States. Does that answer the question? I'm not sure if I do understand what you are saying.
Bryan HoppingT 18:35, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
The core of my comment is that the allopathic link in this template is functionally redundant with MD, and osteopathic is functionally redundant with DO. MD and DO are relevant to training, and they give the reader links to and a sense of the philosophical differences. Therefore, I am combining the lists to keep it relevant and non-redundant.
Antelantalk 19:00, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Don't see the redundancy argument. In each section, the allopathic/osteopathic parallelism is seen. MD/DO, AMA/AOA, AAMC/AACOM. The "pathways" articles are the general categories of this parallelism, the other subsections offer specific examples of the two categories.
Bryan HoppingT 19:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
What do "Pathways" cover that "Degrees" don't
See title. Hopping alluded to an explanation on the talk page, but there is none yet. Here is a good place for it.
Antelantalk 19:09, 20 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Redirects, Pathways, Allopathy
On wikipedia, internal links via redirects should be avoided, hence "comparison of MD and DO" is the correct form. And I'm also interested in an answer to the pathways question above. If no one explains this section should possibly be removed. Also, User:Hopping is, perhaps unintentionally, pushing the term allopathic, which is not common and considered insulting by many. This point has been raised on his user page. The allopathic article is short, and describes the controversial history of the term rather than what an MD actually is. Hence a link to the MD article is far superior. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
80.135.100.158 (
talk) 17:06, 23 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Perhaps we need an article that discusses these pathways in total, in addition to the articles that describe the individual components (i.e. the degrees, the exams, etc.)?
Bryan HoppingT 19:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Protected
Bryan Hopping & whoever's using Tor...time to quit the edit warring here. Please take the time to discuss the best way to link from the template. —
Scientizzle 20:43, 23 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Conversion to navbox
I've never really liked sidebar navigation in Wikipedia, and was wondering if anyone opposed converting this to a bottom {{
navbox}}? The current box takes up too much space, has a lot of white space, and all of the links are hidden by default. I can't think of any other sidebar navigation boxes used on the medicine articles, but there are many bottom navboxes. Also, why not simplify the name of this template to
Template:Medical education in the United States, to match
Medical education in the United States - the main article of the template? --
Scott Alter 04:58, 17 May 2009 (UTC)reply
I am taking
User:Hopping's action of blanking the template as indifference for this proposal, so with no opposition, I am going ahead. --
Scott Alter 14:18, 23 May 2009 (UTC)reply
Sorry about the blanking. It had no relation to this discussion. There was some problem with the template itself.