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willbeurdaddy -> RE: Free College. (6/4/2011 11:56:34 AM)
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ORIGINAL: yummee
It looks to me that the problem is not the cost of the education at all. We don't have enough residency spots, not for primaries, not for specialists. I'd look for some creative thinking in that area, not so much in the offsetting costs area.
I mean, if a person:
is willing to blindly go where the residency lotto sends him,
and he's convinced his loved one to follow to God knows where for 4 to 6 or more years (and some fields require a year at one facility then your 4 years at another, so 2 moves to states/facilities you have little control/say over) where he/she will be absent or sleeping for the duration,
and he's aware that he will have no life for at least 10 years (and after that only if he's gone into certain fields over others),
and if he's female, how the hell to have at least one child during the residency (because if you wait till you are done and set up in your own practice, you are now in a higher risk age group for pregnancy)
.... paying back their student loans is the EASY part of medicine. I'd look at opening some other forms of after school/on-the-job training if residency spots are so limited. Urgent care, walk in clinics, even private practices ... is there a reason that so many years MUST be spent in emergency and/or hospitals specifically? Suppose we sent them to a clinic for one of their residency years rather than a hospital?
Now this, and its pre-cursor, not enough medical school openings, might be a legitimate criticism of the health care system. Are the profession's limitations on openings appropriate and needed to maintain high teaching and admittance standards, or is it artifically limiting the supply of capable doctors?
Addresses this which was posted while I was typing as well:
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2) The AMA allows only so many. So, even if you could pay for your own, the AMA would not allow it.
Interesting how an organization limits, then complains about those limits, then complains about the lack, then complains about being overworked, then complains about being underpaid.
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