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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immigrants will take the jobs Americans don't want.[/quote]

There are plenty of capable Americans who want to be doctors, but there aren't enough med school spots to train them.  We desperately need more med school capacity.[/quote]

You're wrong in a fundamental way, at least unless you expand on that. Med school isn't the problem. You can always hire somebody to teach more classes. It's the clinical placements that are not available, and that is a LOT more difficult to fix (if not impossible).

Clinical teaching requires multiple people to integrate a learner into a space which is increasingly profit-driven, corners-cutting, and pressed for time. There are even more people needing appointments, and fewer providers, and those providers still working are being tracked for spending too much time with patients as it is.

So you just have the learner see patients without full supervision? Not with increasing malpractice and liability legislation. Not without loosening the stringency of holding a medical license, where mistakes or errors will literally follow you forever, even if you change states. And that's fine, but what is the incentive (or even justification) for taking on teaching in that environment?

"We don't have enough medical school slots." No. That's not the problem.

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PS: This is one of the reasons NP diploma mills are so crappy. They often require theNP students to find their own clinical training placements. NOBODY wants them. Why would you, in this context? It's a huge liability and makes a difficult job even worse.[/quote]

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