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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is awesome. Free tuition for anyone whose family makes less than 300k per year and they will also provide living expenses for people with families making less than 175k. And it will extend to the nursing and public health graduate programs as well.

A genuinely worthwhile gift and the size of the gift means that if well managed it should be self-sustaining.

Of course another option would be to tax billionaires and using the money to subsidize medical degrees for people and then also socializing our medical system but whatever.[/quote]

What happens for over 300k/year? Full tuition?[/quote]

Yup. Expect full tuition to go up a LOT from this year.[/quote]

Hopkins doesn't want or need students from households making over $300K. 
They want to train the best and brightest first gen, minority students. 
This is because the patient outcomes from having doctors who look like the patients do and have had the same life experiences that the patients do are LIGHT YEARS better than the outcomes when this is not the case. Research has shown this time and time again. 
And Hopkins (and most academic medical centers) view serving the poor and closing racial and economic health outcomes gaps as a huge  part of their mission. 
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It isn’t because the doctors are any better or do anything different.  It’s bc some minority patients are more likely to listen to advice and be more compliant to treatment.  But the treatment and recommendations aren’t any different.  [b]If you aren’t going to listen to your doctor bc they are a white, that’s a you problem, not a doctor problem.[/b]  [/quote]

Well it's a huge problem in urban medicine.  Health outcomes are far better when minority patients see minority doctors.  I guess people like you would just write off this population but thankfully Hopkins and many other institutions are not and a large part of this initiative to fund the training of first-gen and minority physicians. [/quote]

And only a small percentage of those they graduate are going to want to work for low primary care salaries in Medicaid clinics.  But ok.[/quote]
Yeah, they are more likely to take the bug bucks with diversity administrator positions at Kaiser. But they all drop the “health disparities in my community” buzzwords to get into medical school. [/quote]

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