Free medical school - Johns Hopkins

[Anonymous]

Why other billionaires don't donate like Bloomberg?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/07/08/mike-bloomberg-johns-hopkins-free-medical-school/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3AnDT63t9xXFZKmyjj49Gh0RqsqMqyS-DNiMsRBuYjCeaMKynW_8PitZs_aem_ECnshsOXK1eoui_ekwV78Q

[Anonymous]

This is amazing. We need more doctors who aren’t crushed by debt!

[Anonymous]

This is awesome. Free tuition for anyone whose family makes less than 300k per year and they will also provide living expenses for people with families making less than 175k. And it will extend to the nursing and public health graduate programs as well.

A genuinely worthwhile gift and the size of the gift means that if well managed it should be self-sustaining.

Of course another option would be to tax billionaires and using the money to subsidize medical degrees for people and then also socializing our medical system but whatever.

[Anonymous]

He should spread it around elsewhere. Didn’t he already donate to JHU?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He should spread it around elsewhere. Didn’t he already donate to JHU?

He went to Johns Hopkins.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. Free tuition for anyone whose family makes less than 300k per year and they will also provide living expenses for people with families making less than 175k. And it will extend to the nursing and public health graduate programs as well.

A genuinely worthwhile gift and the size of the gift means that if well managed it should be self-sustaining.

Of course another option would be to tax billionaires and using the money to subsidize medical degrees for people and then also socializing our medical system but whatever.

What happens for over 300k/year? Full tuition?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. Free tuition for anyone whose family makes less than 300k per year and they will also provide living expenses for people with families making less than 175k. And it will extend to the nursing and public health graduate programs as well.

A genuinely worthwhile gift and the size of the gift means that if well managed it should be self-sustaining.

Of course another option would be to tax billionaires and using the money to subsidize medical degrees for people and then also socializing our medical system but whatever.

What happens for over 300k/year? Full tuition?

Yup. Expect full tuition to go up a LOT from this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. Free tuition for anyone whose family makes less than 300k per year and they will also provide living expenses for people with families making less than 175k. And it will extend to the nursing and public health graduate programs as well.

A genuinely worthwhile gift and the size of the gift means that if well managed it should be self-sustaining.

Of course another option would be to tax billionaires and using the money to subsidize medical degrees for people and then also socializing our medical system but whatever.

What happens for over 300k/year? Full tuition?

Yup. Expect full tuition to go up a LOT from this year.

Hopkins doesn't want or need students from households making over $300K.
They want to train the best and brightest first gen, minority students.
This is because the patient outcomes from having doctors who look like the patients do and have had the same life experiences that the patients do are LIGHT YEARS better than the outcomes when this is not the case. Research has shown this time and time again.
And Hopkins (and most academic medical centers) view serving the poor and closing racial and economic health outcomes gaps as a huge part of their mission.

[Anonymous]

I wish he somehow tipped this in favor of the more desperately needed medical specialties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is amazing. We need more doctors who aren’t crushed by debt!

The can always have the Army pay and serve a few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is amazing. We need more doctors who aren’t crushed by debt!

The can always have the Army pay and serve a few years.

It’s more than a few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish he somehow tipped this in favor of the more desperately needed medical specialties.

Hopkins is not in the business of training primary care physicians--they don't even have a family medicine program. My brother did an internal medicine residency there and out of 36 members of his class, all but one went on to do fellowships to become cardiologists, nephrologists, etc.
They want to train URMs, first gen, etc but as subspecialists--not primary care physicians.

There are plenty of other medical schools who have robust primary care programs (including research goals within the primary care fields) and view this as their mission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is amazing. We need more doctors who aren’t crushed by debt!

The can always have the Army pay and serve a few years.

Not everyone wants to serve. And it is more than a few years. It's at least 4 (know someone going through it now).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. Free tuition for anyone whose family makes less than 300k per year and they will also provide living expenses for people with families making less than 175k. And it will extend to the nursing and public health graduate programs as well.

A genuinely worthwhile gift and the size of the gift means that if well managed it should be self-sustaining.

Of course another option would be to tax billionaires and using the money to subsidize medical degrees for people and then also socializing our medical system but whatever.

What happens for over 300k/year? Full tuition?

Yup. Expect full tuition to go up a LOT from this year.

Hopkins doesn't want or need students from households making over $300K.
They want to train the best and brightest first gen, minority students.
This is because the patient outcomes from having doctors who look like the patients do and have had the same life experiences that the patients do are LIGHT YEARS better than the outcomes when this is not the case. Research has shown this time and time again.
And Hopkins (and most academic medical centers) view serving the poor and closing racial and economic health outcomes gaps as a huge part of their mission.

There aren’t enough first gen minority students capable of successfully getting into and completing medical school to support the needs of the country’s entire population.

Huh?
Because Hopkins can't address the needs of the poor of the entire country they should just give up and change course?
You make no sense at all.

Hopkins enrolls 120 med students per year. There are plenty of URM, first gen students to meet their goals for this cohort. They have their pick.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. Free tuition for anyone whose family makes less than 300k per year and they will also provide living expenses for people with families making less than 175k. And it will extend to the nursing and public health graduate programs as well.

A genuinely worthwhile gift and the size of the gift means that if well managed it should be self-sustaining.

Of course another option would be to tax billionaires and using the money to subsidize medical degrees for people and then also socializing our medical system but whatever.

What happens for over 300k/year? Full tuition?

Yup. Expect full tuition to go up a LOT from this year.

Hopkins doesn't want or need students from households making over $300K.
They want to train the best and brightest first gen, minority students.
This is because the patient outcomes from having doctors who look like the patients do and have had the same life experiences that the patients do are LIGHT YEARS better than the outcomes when this is not the case. Research has shown this time and time again.
And Hopkins (and most academic medical centers) view serving the poor and closing racial and economic health outcomes gaps as a huge part of their mission.

There aren’t enough first gen minority students capable of successfully getting into and completing medical school to support the needs of the country’s entire population.

+1 The minority doctors I've had weren't capable. They didn't want to treat a white disabled patient and falsified medical records. Never again.