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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. Thank you to everyone who posted. My dh has been considering med school but would need two years of science in the evening classes prior to sitting the mcat. Then a year of applying before starting so we too are looking at a long road. We have 1 child and 1 on the way in the fall. I love the idea of. A large family but don't know how realistic it would be to continue on in the baby preschool years as basically a single parent. For those that went through medachool or had a spouse do it with young children was it doable? Was medschool harder or residency? I Was thinking if we could be done with babies by residency it might not kill me. Any other advise would be awesome too. [/quote]

If your husband goes to medical school, he will lose a decade of income in his prime earning years (residents are paid but it is barely enough to live on).    For most people that is a loss of at least a million dollars.  Added to that is the cost of medical school.  According to the American Association of Medical Colleges here is the table of debt for medical school graduates in 2014.

And this includes all those who graduate with NO debt because they are SELF-PAY (parent pay).  In many schools this number is around 50%.  There are lots of wealthy people who pay cash for their children's medical education.

Public/Private/Combined
Pct. with Ed. Debt:       86% 82% 84%
Mean debt:       $167,763/$190,053/$176,348
Median debt:   $170,000 /$200,000 /$180,000

If you have dependents who will need their own college educations paid for in 15-18 years I think it's incredibly sobering to think of spending this much money on education in your 30's.

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