By: DaveT

DaveT — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:51:28 +0000

I love Campos’s last sentence in that piece; I think the popolo minuto are going to be better off when the inevitable credentialing crash comes.

By: Leland Davis

Leland Davis — Sun, 01 May 2011 03:02:30 +0000

I am an unemployed (5+ years with nothing but temp jobs unrelated to my training) PhD cell biologist. At the public institution where I attended graduate school, it is claimed that 98% of the graduates went on to careers in the field. The number was higher, but I complained to a politician about the lack of career resources offered to alumni at the institution, and he took an interest. So, the problem is not just law schools. The problem is with the data fudging and wildly inaccurate career advice. (We do not have enough people studying for careers in STEM fields!!!!)
I would rather there exist an overcapacity in the educational system, combined with accurate, non-BS career advice, than have quotas to entry into the profession as exist in health fields, such as medicine. These quotas take the fear of competition away from already licensed practitioners, and encourage late-career physicians to neglect keeping their skills up to date. Physicians around the country howled when it was suggested that they need to periodically retake the board examinations. As for continuing medical education (CME) requirements, those were the people (physicians) sleeping in conference rooms at biomedical conferences. The scientists were awake – their careers depended on understanding the material.

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By: DaveT

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