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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you want anyone other than the brightest and most capable people in charge of your medical care? [/quote]

I want more English speaking proven high IQ American kids becoming doctors, I don't want tens of thousands of them being arbitrarily weeded out with curved STEM courses and senseless hoops and hyper-selective medical schools rejecting them.[/quote]

They're being weeded out because they aren't good, not because of curved classes. My God, what sort of entitled snowflakes do you want in charge of your medical care? I certainly don't want a doctor who can't even handle a curved class. [/quote]

Not really. [b]They are weeded out because of the shortage of residencies.[/b] There’s enough demand for more doctors but the infrastructure is not in place provide the supply—partially because it is in the AMA’s interest to keep the supply of doctors lower and keep salaries higher [/quote]

Disagree with this.  There is a shortage of med school spaces.  This is why foreign medical graduates are able to get residencies in the U.S.--there are more residencies opening up each year than there are US med school graduates to fill them.

There is major weeding out among the premed students applying to med schools--only 40% get an acceptance.

The article OP posted is about weeding out even before one gets to the applicant phase, that is, among pre-meds.  If that weeding out did not take place among premeds we would see an even lower percentage of med school applicants being admitted.  The bottle neck is at the med schools.[/quote]

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