Why is med school so hard to get into if there is a shortage of doctors?

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Anonymous wrote:Because it's cheaper to farm in a bunch of Indian and Chinese med school graduates.

yep. It's much cheaper

Cheaper for who exactly?

United Healthcare

Such an ignorant answer. Are you under the impression that United Healthcare cares where the billing doctor went to school?

You definitely missed the point. Provider wages (paid by insurance companies) can be suppressed if you bring in labor from the developing world.

So-called shortages in U.S. labor are often pressed as a political issue with the proposed solution of importing cheaper labor. This is in every sector of the economy.

Please provide any semblance of proof for the statement you made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're willing to go DO, it's not nearly as hard.
https://www.aacom.org/searches/reports/report/aacomas-applicants-and-matriculants-average-gpa-2016-2023#:~:text=The%20report%20*Applicants%20Matriculants%20Trends*%20summarizes%20the,respectively%20*%20Science:%203.44%20and%203.49%2C%20respectively

Still very competitive.

[Anonymous]

Because getting in is not the end goal. You'll need to be successful and if they admit a bunch of people who are never going to graduate, pass the tests, and finish residency, then it looks bad for the school.

[Anonymous]

Foreign doctors will work and live anywhere in the US and there are countless places in the US that American trained physicians do not want to live in for residency, let alone as Attending physicians.

i.e. if you went through all the trouble of attending medical school and completing residency would you really choose to live and work at a hospital in an old factory town in West Virginia or Tennessee where the only stores for 50 miles are a Walmart and some truck stops? i think not. But if you're from India you'll take that job over residing in the slums of your own country.

[Anonymous]

UGA is opening a med school in Athens

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's cheaper to farm in a bunch of Indian and Chinese med school graduates.

yep. It's much cheaper

Cheaper for who exactly?

United Healthcare

Such an ignorant answer. Are you under the impression that United Healthcare cares where the billing doctor went to school?

You definitely missed the point. Provider wages (paid by insurance companies) can be suppressed if you bring in labor from the developing world.

So-called shortages in U.S. labor are often pressed as a political issue with the proposed solution of importing cheaper labor. This is in every sector of the economy.

Please provide any semblance of proof for the statement you made.

If you do not understand this from following U.S. news and policy over the last 30 years, it is because you choose not to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's cheaper to farm in a bunch of Indian and Chinese med school graduates.

yep. It's much cheaper

Cheaper for who exactly?

United Healthcare

Such an ignorant answer. Are you under the impression that United Healthcare cares where the billing doctor went to school?

You definitely missed the point. Provider wages (paid by insurance companies) can be suppressed if you bring in labor from the developing world.

So-called shortages in U.S. labor are often pressed as a political issue with the proposed solution of importing cheaper labor. This is in every sector of the economy.

Please provide any semblance of proof for the statement you made.

If you do not understand this from following U.S. news and policy over the last 30 years, it is because you choose not to.

I understand perfectly that you've been told a lot of nonsense by Fox news that you now believe without any actual proof. Either produce the evidence or shut up.

[Anonymous]

Because you have to attend 8 years of university before several editions years’ residency. It’s ridiculous and unlike the rest of the world. It should be an undergrad degree like everywhere else, 5 years at most, then residency.

There’s tons of cost savings right there.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's cheaper to farm in a bunch of Indian and Chinese med school graduates.

yep. It's much cheaper

Cheaper for who exactly?

United Healthcare

Such an ignorant answer. Are you under the impression that United Healthcare cares where the billing doctor went to school?

You definitely missed the point. Provider wages (paid by insurance companies) can be suppressed if you bring in labor from the developing world.

So-called shortages in U.S. labor are often pressed as a political issue with the proposed solution of importing cheaper labor. This is in every sector of the economy.

Please provide any semblance of proof for the statement you made.

If you do not understand this from following U.S. news and policy over the last 30 years, it is because you choose not to.

I understand perfectly that you've been told a lot of nonsense by Fox news that you now believe without any actual proof. Either produce the evidence or shut up.

I'm definitely left of center and I probably hate faux news more than you do. But I am annoyed that wages have been suppressed by large corporations through lobbying congress for special visa exemptions that just so happen to increase their profit margins. Those are just facts. You can choose to like or not like them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're willing to go DO, it's not nearly as hard.
https://www.aacom.org/searches/reports/report/aacomas-applicants-and-matriculants-average-gpa-2016-2023#:~:text=The%20report%20*Applicants%20Matriculants%20Trends*%20summarizes%20the,respectively%20*%20Science:%203.44%20and%203.49%2C%20respectively

there's a reason for that...don't go DO

[Anonymous]

Just like nursing school, there’s not enough teachers.

[Anonymous]

Umm…what’s the reason?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's cheaper to farm in a bunch of Indian and Chinese med school graduates.

yep. It's much cheaper

Cheaper for who exactly?

United Healthcare

Such an ignorant answer. Are you under the impression that United Healthcare cares where the billing doctor went to school?

You definitely missed the point. Provider wages (paid by insurance companies) can be suppressed if you bring in labor from the developing world.

So-called shortages in U.S. labor are often pressed as a political issue with the proposed solution of importing cheaper labor. This is in every sector of the economy.

Please provide any semblance of proof for the statement you made.

If you do not understand this from following U.S. news and policy over the last 30 years, it is because you choose not to.

I understand perfectly that you've been told a lot of nonsense by Fox news that you now believe without any actual proof. Either produce the evidence or shut up.

I'm definitely left of center and I probably hate faux news more than you do. But I am annoyed that wages have been suppressed by large corporations through lobbying congress for special visa exemptions that just so happen to increase their profit margins. Those are just facts. You can choose to like or not like them.

Again, provide evidence or shut up. If it's so evident, why haven't you done it yet?

[Anonymous]

Alice Walton of Walmart fortune just opened a new medical school in Bentonville AR.

Does anyone know anything about it? Is it a full medical school? https://www.alwmedschool.org/

[Anonymous]

The best doctor I ever had was a DO. She's with a different arm of the practice now and it's too far to make the drive.