I have been on this board for a while and found the following subsections/categories are rarely used or misused. I am bringing this up for the moderators of CC to consider either rename, combine or eliminate. Obviously, its not going to be my authority, but would like to bring up for discussion.
The following subsections/categories were created with good intention but I do not see the users understand the subject matter and posted some unrelated subjects, as a result, it is not being visited by the regulars. Unlike SDN, the users on this board are rarely med school students (other than maybe IWBB and few others), therefore, some categories probably is useless on CC.
- High School Student Topics. I am not sure the purpose of this category. if HS students want to apply for a BS/MD program, they should post to the "Multi Degree Programs" section, if they want to select a school for pre-med, maybe the "pre-med topics" should be used. And the name of "Multi Degree Program" is ambiguous, is it for MD/Phd candidates or BS/MD candidates? It is unclear the "pre-med topics" is for college student or for HS student. Anyway, this confusion causes the user to post mixed subject in the categories.
- Specific Med School and Other Medical school category. I cannot imagine some one can differentiate the two, I am proposing either combine the two into a "med school student" section of eliminate them.
- Careers in Medicine, this category is confusing, lots of HS students post there asking their potential of become a doctor. I think the initial intent was to have med school graduates to find out different residency programs. But there is no market for that. In stead, a lot parents are following up the "Residency is next" topic in the "Pre-med Topics" section.
I am no wizard and I am not qualified to make up categories for CC users. I am just want to start a discussion for mods to consider. More qualified person on this board such as WOWM, IWBB or M2CK could have their own thoughts.
TIA