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While the West is chuckling about whether Euro “leaders” were snorting cocaine on the way to see the Cocaine King in the Ukraine, scandals are chugging along on the other side of the world:

Translations: What the “4+4” Medical Scandal Reveals About Second-Generation Privilege

The issue was brought up through a sexual dalliance between a senior doctor and his junior at a prestigious Beijing hospital. But that is not the scandal! Apparently, China has an accelerated 8-year pilot training program for doctors, in addition to the standard 12-year program. And it seems that the beneficiaries of this expedited program are mostly the children of Upper Middle class. Communism!

… The letter contained details of the doctor’s alleged affairs with several colleagues (including one Dong Xiying, a young resident at the hospital), and an allegation that Dr. Xiao left a patient anesthetized on the operating table for 40 minutes while he left the operating theatre to comfort Ms. Dong. …

… Internet sleuths who dug into Ms. Dong’s background discovered that she was a “returnee” who had earned an economics degree at Barnard College in the U.S., was from a fairly influential family background, and had enjoyed an academic and career trajectory that may have been helped along by nepotism and string-pulling. Perhaps most controversial was Dong’s rapid rise via the “4+4” accelerated-degree pilot program …

… Dong Xiying, whose undergraduate degree was in economics, was allowed to help perform surgery when she was only in her second year of medical school. …

… The third section, enumerating some characteristic examples of systemic privilege, claimed that “35% of the ‘4+4’ program participants have parents who are departmental-level or higher-level cadres, which far exceeds the proportion found among students in typical medical school programs (2.1%).” …

… slowing economic growth, fiercer competition, and fewer opportunities for social mobility in recent years have spurred those with privilege to resort to ever more extreme measures to pass on that privilege to their children …

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Don’t quite get the “4+4” program. Back when I went to med school, Loyola had just begun a pilot program wherein med school was only 3 years, but it was continuous - no summer break. In addition Loyola college students in their 3rd year were accepted into the beginning class of Med school. Upon completion of Med school, they were awarded both a BS and an MD, thereby “saving” two years of school.

?Is the 4+4 something like that.

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It looks like the standard baseline is the 5+3+4 medical training:

“Another now-deleted article, published on May 4 by WeChat account Elephant News, provides details about PUMC’s accelerated “4+4” doctoral degree program, and compares it to the usual “5+3+4” route for Chinese medical students: five years of undergraduate-level medical education, followed by three years of master’s-level medical coursework and four years of doctoral-level medical coursework.”

The 4+4 seems to be 4 years of undergraduate level education in any discipline, not necessarily medical, followed by the special 4 year medical program which replaces the 3 year medical Masters and the subsequent 4 year medical PhD.

Seen that way, and assuming that the student enters with an undergraduate degree in economics or Lesbian Dance, graduates of the accelerated program will have had 4 years of medical education versus 12 years medical education in the standard program.

Note to self: when getting sick in China, look for an older doctor.

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