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I don't think it's a waste of time. If you pay attention in your introductory courses, you'll learn a good chunk of how to abuse NHST and what the criticisms of it mean. I have learned very little Bayesian statistics, but for trying to understand the very large existing medical/psychological research corpus, I have never regretted focusing my reading on frequentist material.
I defer to your superior domain knowledge of universities.
You don't have to; you can see CMU's "Probability & Statistics" for yourself, for example.
Oh not for me- I'm doing CS, but it seems like we could get very large returns in hospital performance for the effort expended in teaching med students the proper stats training.
I'm not sure what to expect here, except that at best they'll flat out say that the program is difficult enough as it is, and at worst shrug with some kind of vague "corporate-representative-being-questioned" answer. In my wildest dreams they could come up with some new-fangled "Life Stats" course, streamlined so only the parts related to diagnostics and prognostics are taught.