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by haldujai 1115 days ago
> Summarizing academic research is almost entirely unrelated to the practice of medicine.

Do you mean basic science research? Evaluating academic medical research is considered a core competency for physicians.

https://www.royalcollege.ca/ca/en/canmeds/canmeds-framework/...

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> Do you mean basic science research?

No, I mean actual diagnosis and treatment.

> Evaluating academic medical research is considered a core competency for physicians.

But it's a very different activity from diagnosis and treatment, which look much more like sequential decision-making and hypothesis-testing than like question-answering.