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...Harvard medical student seeking extra break time to express milk into a bottle during a medical certification exam lost her bid in court yesterday...
Judge Patrick F. Brady of Norfolk Superior Court ruled that Sophie C. Currier, an MD-PhD student at the Medical School and mother of a four-month-old baby, would not be entitled to extra time for lactating during the nine-hour exam used by state medical boards to certify doctors...
Currier sued the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), which co-sponsors the exam and sets testing rules, because she argued that she would not have an adequate amount of time to express milk, eat, drink, and use the restroom during breaks...
...that doctors know the exam works pretty well, maybe more countries will put it to use. When Canada first mandated that doctors pass the communication test for licensure, it was the only country in the world to do so - and the move was seen as controversial. Since then, the U.S. licensing system has also introduced a clinical skills exam, which every domestic and foreign medical school graduate must pass. Robyn Tamblyn, the lead author of the JAMA paper and a professor of medicine at McGill, thinks the test ought to be given even earlier than that. Why have doctors slog...
While few physicians or educators doubt that communication matters, many people question how well you can test something as subjective as communication - especially when every new doctor must complete the exam on a single given day, no matter how grouchy he or she feels. But both the Canadians and the Americans have gone to great lengths to ensure their tests are fair, says Tamblyn. Her study shows that the predictive power of such exams holds irrespective of the doctors' gender or whether they went to med school in another country. "It's a good-news story," says Tamblyn...