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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The medical school loan cap is a disaster for countries such as mine that offer free medical education. My cousin finished med school 2 years ago. His entire education was paid of by the government. She was the only surgeon serving in an African city and was doing several surgeries a day. Guess what? She is in the process of moving here. She got a special visa I don't know the details to come practice medicine here. In my country she couldn't even afford a car. Essentially the US will suck up a bunch of doctors from overseas. Sounds familiar? That's how wal street shiped jobs to China in the 90s. That's how the Valley imported cheaper Tech workers. The American capitalist system is obsessed with getting richer and richer and richer.

This is a disaster because the medical training of an American is of higher quality than that of an African. My cousin told me that apparently you start med school right after HS in my country. [/quote]

Yes in many, many countries, med school is three years of school after high school and no residency program, etc.  That's one step up from Dr. Google. [/quote]

I can share some information about the medical school program in Senegal a country in West Africa because I was admitted into the public medical school after obtaining my HS diploma in biology. So in Senegal it's a 7 years program. You are admitted after having excelled in one of the scientific HS programs. The freshman year is brutal. Less than 20% continue into the second year. And every what after that the cutting continues. By the 7th year you have less than 5% of the original class left. Once you have completed the 7 years, you need to do a 3 years residency program. Next, you often go abroad to do your fellowship for another few years because by then there are so many scholarships available foe the few students left. 
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Some days I wonder why Africa is so poor. There were a few students from Africa in AE program at Georgia Tech and they were so good. One mu teammate was from Mali and I was shocked honestly that most of the math and physics we did in the first year he had already studied in HS and he told me he was in a regular program back in his country. It makes you wonder about our education system before college.[/quote]

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