Dentists, nurses, physiotherapists and physicians are all degree level medical specialties. Engineering is split. What’s the argument against doing it for medicine other than tradition?
> Engineering is split. What’s the argument against doing it for medicine other than tradition?
One might argue medicine is a split-off piece from natural sciences.
A counter-argument might be that while the natural sciences are almost always split, where they aren't, such as at Cambridge, medicine is still of course separate.
I think the real reason is probably just that there's more value to most medicos in a whole-body understanding than there is to most engineers in a multi-disciplinary understanding.
I'd quite like to need to routinely design electronic circuits, CAD/CAM packaging for them with certain mechanical constraints, and develop software to run on them in my work, but I don't; that'd need to be a very small company working on a physical product for that not to be at least two people's jobs.
I feel that mechanical engineers should have a bit of understanding about what is going on behind the scenes when they click on things in a CAD package.
From talking to recent students and current professors, I'm not sure they are learning this as part of a degree course.
Yes, maybe my approach and perspective are skewed by traditional thinking. Unfortunately, I'm still failing to see a need for AI split in CS. An AI student might not need to learn basics of programming languages, operating systems, OOP, DB management, and many other core topics for CS but what else remains to be honest? If we were to simply convert elective AI courses to "must", then are we going to offer classic CS courses as "elective"?
The comment is more about splitting it at the undergraduate level. I think most of the medical specialties you listed will have basically the same undergraduate experience, though I could be mistaken.
One might argue medicine is a split-off piece from natural sciences.
A counter-argument might be that while the natural sciences are almost always split, where they aren't, such as at Cambridge, medicine is still of course separate.
I think the real reason is probably just that there's more value to most medicos in a whole-body understanding than there is to most engineers in a multi-disciplinary understanding.
I'd quite like to need to routinely design electronic circuits, CAD/CAM packaging for them with certain mechanical constraints, and develop software to run on them in my work, but I don't; that'd need to be a very small company working on a physical product for that not to be at least two people's jobs.