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[quote=Anonymous]It’s not just medical school- they aren’t enough residency spots to train doctors (esp in urban areas where most when to train).

Medical school is not like other grad schools, it’s really expensive to train a doctor. Durng the coursework time, you need specialists and phds in every field rotating to teach doctors, anatomy specialists, standardized actors to practice the physical exam and communication skills + test prep specialists (we take 2 major boards during medical school that you have to pass to even graduate.) then when you get to rotations, there is liability insurance since you are working with real patients and you have to have enough specialists/exposures available for all the students to rotate through various specialities. So it’s not simple, you need to have the infrastructure in place.

I think for example nurse practitioner schools don’t have as may stringent requirements and sometimes students have to find their own preceptors. Medical school is heavily heavily regulated so that limits growth [/quote]

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