We could teach elementary school kids to set bones, do stitches, manage projects, and treat flu. If people have a problem with this, they should have a problem with subsidies for teaching people to code as well.
90% of what they learned in medical school is irrelevant to their specialties, and the vast majority of the medicine they practiced was learned 'on the job'.
Medical education is heavily regulated and controlled by licensing organizations, and this is the primary reason why there would never be a disruption in the education model like this. Whether or not this a good thing is tough to answer.
We call them nurses, PAs, and paramedics.
And every single one of them has a training program already more rigorous than most bootcamps.
https://www.emergenthealth.org/ems-education/ems-licensure-c...
This is equivalent to coding bootcamp.
If a doctor is equivalent to a software engineer, than an EMT is equivalent to a business analyst who can only work on 3% of your projects and is only present a few hours per week.
I have nothing against EMTs. I earned an EMT-Basic license a number of years back.
Meanwhile if your average developer or software engineer screws up, it's usually not a big deal. It might be in a few specific instances (like if they're working with medical software or systems onboard planes), but in most cases it's just 'some small business' website goes down' or 'a video game crashes'.
Medical implants? Robotic surgery?
AI referees?
Edit: Social Media, Elections, Politics, News, etc
That's another huge difference between software engineering/web development/coding and something like medicine; there are few parts of the latter where screwing up won't have major consequences, and many parts of the former which won't.
In that sense, I guess you could say tech is less like a 'field' or 'industry' and more like part of life that a bunch of different fields or industries depend on. It's like how 'writing English' covers lawyers writing documents for use in court, teachers teaching students in schools and colleges, authors writing novels and businesses writing copy for their websites/brochures.
The former two cases would have some sort of licensing because they have actual consequences if someone doesn't know what they're doing, whereas the latter clearly wouldn't.
The MCAS of the 737-MAX wasn't designed by mechanical or civil engineers ;)
...maybe?
On the one hand the idea that you can become a well-paid programmer starting from one of these bootcamps is almost insulting to me as someone who dedicated much of his life to the field.
On the other hand, a lot of people do it. I've worked with them. They don't all suck.
Have I wasted my life on trivialities?
What does my knowledge and, yes, mastery count for if Joe Bootcamp can solve Jane Businessman's problems with a few months of training and a bolus of javascript?
There would be MORE malware.
People who couldn't meet the high standards could find income in the lucrative field of malware.
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/jobs-and-work-experience/job-sec...
A bit longer than a typical bootcamp, but not a long time.
"The GDL is one (full-time) or two (part-time) years long, and successful candidates may proceed to either the Legal Practice Course (LPC) for solicitors or the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) for barristers."
Lobbyists
Law - you have to pass the bar
Accounting - you need to be a CPA (although mostly for a specific career path)
Surgery - do you really want some schmuck performing an operation solely from a 2 month school that teaches how to fix people?
Policing - well the union's a big one...