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| TheSeeker Member 11 Posts 4/04 |  Posted - Apr 16 2004 : 1:24PMAs the topic recently came up in the "STD's in porn" thread, many people are unhappy with the way Sharon Mitchell refers to herself as a doctor at the AIM clinic, which implies that she is a medical doctor, not a Ph.D. recipient. As a medical student, I find it highly insulting that she would chose to present herself as a doctor, or even as a Ph.D., especially given the fact that the "institution" that bestowed the Ph.D. upon her is *NOT* accredited by the US Dept. of Education or a Council for Higher Education Accreditation or US Dept. of Education approved accrediting body. You can view her Ph.D. info here or Google cache here and the institution's page here. Aside from the humorous fact that the first words mentioned on their website is "Note: We now accept Mastercard, Visa and Discover", the requirements for this Ph.D. is are shady at best. From their web page, the institute requires a whopping 5 trimesters of work, plus a thesis, to receive the degree. Unlike the name implies, a trimester is not four months, or one-third of a year. As their website states, a trimester is roughly *HALF A MONTH*. They define their Spring trimester as Feb 7 - Feb 22 and their Fall Trimester as Oct 3 - Oct. 20. What this means is that for the whopping academic commitment of as little as 2.5 months, anyone can earn a Ph.D. They don't even require an undergraduate degree as long as you can prove you have "experience" in the field! Their main interest seems to be collecting the exorbitant $4,950 per trimester fee, for which no federal or state student loans are available since it's not an accredited educational institution. This barely qualifies as a shade above a diploma mill and is an insult to all of us who put in the usual 4 years of undergrad work and 5-6+ years of extremely challenging graduate work and contribution to the academic community for our doctoral degree. The fact that Sharon Mitchell knowingly purports herself to be a "doctor", despite lacking a degree from an accredited college or university, is nothing short of unethical. I also find it highly disturbing that the medical institution in charge of ensuring the industry's safety is headed by an individual with a fraudulent degree. Edited by - TheSeeker on Apr 16 2004 Edited by - TheSeeker on Apr 16 2004 [Link] |
| KSEXPJ_Wankus KSEXRadio.com 192 Posts 4/04 | Posted - Apr 16 2004 : 1:33PM Dr. Jerry Buss, Dr. Laura, Dr. Martin Luther King...ya know, just to name a few.
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| MLyons Senior Member 1617 Posts 8/02 | Posted - Apr 16 2004 : 1:40PM I hear you... I do. And I can understand your frustration, but this is really a slippery slope your on. If you're going to present evidence against Sharon's credentials, please present evidence. You haven't provided any hard facts that cover both Sharon's claim of where she got the degree, or a link or even a name of the institution you say she got it from. As far as I can tell, everything you've said can't be taken at more than face value--you're not allowing anyone to draw their own conclusions--you're drawing them for us. Without an even handed presentation of fact, all your post is is a baseless attack on someone (qualified or not) who's trying to do her best to lead the industry through this crisis. Like I said, in the purview of this forum... this is a slippery slope. I'm not saying you're right or wrong... I'm just saying that you're not presenting enough information for anyone else to have an informed opinion. Edited by - MLyons on 4/16/2004 1:41:34 PM [Link] |
| jrv Senior Member 1266 Posts 2/03 | Posted - Apr 16 2004 : 2:15PM (I made the analogy elsewhere that it's like a college basketball or football player who majors in P.E.) One thing I will say - whatever her credentials are, the industry reaction this time is FAR more organized and coordinated than it has been in the past. There will be areas of improvement once a post-mortem is done of course, but AIM and Sharon haven't done anything embarrassing in this case yet. The biggest problem Sharon may have is if AIM tries to get a fancier license for doing medical tests in-house. AIM might need a director with a slightly more credible degree if she's to be director of such a lab. [Link] |
| TheSeeker Member 11 Posts 4/04 | Posted - Apr 16 2004 : 2:15PM With that in mind, the AIM website has a bio page on her that states that "Dr. Mitchell received her Ph.D. in Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco". The website is, at the moment, being hammered with hits, but you can see this for yourself on the google cache of the page. The website for the institution she attended is available at http://www.iashs.edu/ You can view this to verify all the things in the post, from the lack of Dept. of Education approved accreditation to the academic requirements of 5 trimesters (of approximately 1/2 month per trimester) for the Ph.D. in human sexuality. Like MLyons stated, I urge each of you to check out both websites and come to your own conclusions regarding her claims. [EDITED by MLyons to make the urls into links] Edited by - MLyons on 4/16/2004 2:26:30 PM [Link] |
| TheSeeker Member 11 Posts 4/04 | Posted - Apr 16 2004 : 2:27PM If her degree were in 16th century French Opera, and it was awarded by a DOJ-approved accredited institution, then she would indeed be Dr. Sharon Mitchell and would be justified in calling herself as such, even if the degree was unrelated to her work at AIM. The point I am making is that it is unethical for Ms. Mitchell to publically represent herself as "Dr. Sharon Mitchell" and as having a valid Ph.D. It is also an insult to all of us that have put in the years of hard work to attain a REAL doctoral degree. [Link] |
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