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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should have 3 years of heavily focused undergrad followed by a year of a related medical experience (paid internship) and then med school.

And they need to let more kids into med school. We need more American-educated doctors. [/quote]

Sigh. This was addressed above. It's not as simple as simply admitting more students. Could you pack more into the lecture halls? Sure (especially now that lots of students don't go to lecture, it's recorded and many watch it ... or plan to anyway ... later). But there simply are not enough rotation sites or residency sites. [/quote] This is not true. There are 6000 more residency spots than US MD/DO grads per year.[/quote]

And American grads do not want those spots. You realize that not all programs/residencies are the same, right? That not all are created equal? And that rotation sites are not residency spots? I had an M4 complaining bitterly to me just last week about lack of rotation spots. [/quote]

So to me there seems to be a gap here that I’m not understanding.  We have a fairly low medical school acceptance rate, but we are importing doctors to do jobs Americans supposedly don’t want.  Further, those foreign doctors are graduating from medical school with fewer years of training and less expensive training (undergrad and medical school is free in many countries), no shadowing, etc. This doesn’t make a ton of sense.  Why don’t we admit more Americans on the basis that they will take those primary care jobs?  Why don’t we make medical school more affordable so people can better understand the community they serve?[/quote]

The foreign medical school grads are much, much more willing to take a residency spot at upstairs Alabama medical college or college East Possumtown community hospital  And those places need both doctors and residents! [/quote]

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