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Anonymous wrote:Join the military to have the US govt pay for your med school.

You would be surprised by the number of sickly medical students who wouldn’t qualify for military service. Maybe it makes sense that poor family health inspired their interest in the field.

The military suggestion always makes me shake my head. Some people literally cannot get in. I’d never be able to join, due to a hidden disability.

I am married to a doctor who did this path and it also makes me shake my head. It's far more complicated than "have the military pay for it". He has finally retired after his 18 years of service and two deployments. I think we would have paid off any med school loans before this.
It's worth considering, but for goodness sake it's not just that easy.

18? I thought it was like 3-4 years for the HPSP

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Anonymous wrote:Join the Air Force before med school. That's what my uncle did. Came from a poor family.

So Air Force officer during med school, residence, and then afterward for a while. Then resigned his commission and joined a private practice.

Many such cases. Never a penny of debt.

This is what I was thinking also.

You could pay off most if not all of your debt in the same three to four years if going the loan route. Maybe if you're certain you're going to be a medical geneticist or pediatrician? I'm not sure, you would have to run the numbers

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Join the military to have the US govt pay for your med school.

You would be surprised by the number of sickly medical students who wouldn’t qualify for military service. Maybe it makes sense that poor family health inspired their interest in the field.

The military suggestion always makes me shake my head. Some people literally cannot get in. I’d never be able to join, due to a hidden disability.

I am married to a doctor who did this path and it also makes me shake my head. It's far more complicated than "have the military pay for it". He has finally retired after his 18 years of service and two deployments. I think we would have paid off any med school loans before this.
It's worth considering, but for goodness sake it's not just that easy.

When they say the expression when pigs fly. How do they actually fly? Like with a plane or are they talking about wings. Basically pigs are not capable of flying so the expression is quite humorous because they obviously can't fly. It's funny we take these deep dives into questions that are so preposterous and obvious. If our country does not have any plans or systems for education finance besides begging like a homeless person how/ why do we expect an answer how to fund students where profit gouging is the standard but not the solution.

Anonymous wrote:Join the Air Force before med school. That's what my uncle did. Came from a poor family.

So Air Force officer during med school, residence, and then afterward for a while. Then resigned his commission and joined a private practice.

Many such cases. Never a penny of debt.

This is what I was thinking also.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Join the military to have the US govt pay for your med school.

You would be surprised by the number of sickly medical students who wouldn’t qualify for military service. Maybe it makes sense that poor family health inspired their interest in the field.

The military suggestion always makes me shake my head. Some people literally cannot get in. I’d never be able to join, due to a hidden disability.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter got a scholarship to attend JHU med school. Otherwise I would have had to sell my primary residence because medical school in this country is very expensive.

I think the vast majority of kids in the US who go to medical school likely come from affluent families. In my country of birth medical school starts after high school and it's fully funded by the government.

The US does has a tiny number of direct-admission (i.e., directly from HS) medical schools. MCV/VCU is a local example, although even that has a larger cohort that apply after a 4-yr degree than gain direct admission. We should switch the whole country to that direct admission model.

My daughter got a scholarship to attend JHU med school. Otherwise I would have had to sell my primary residence because medical school in this country is very expensive.

I think the vast majority of kids in the US who go to medical school likely come from affluent families. In my country of birth medical school starts after high school and it's fully funded by the government.

Anonymous wrote:Join the military to have the US govt pay for your med school.

You would be surprised by the number of sickly medical students who wouldn’t qualify for military service. Maybe it makes sense that poor family health inspired their interest in the field.

In my or DH’s family they went into the military for med school. DC has many choices for pre-med but choosing in-state and will pay 15,000 instead of 70,000+ dollars tuition per year for 4 years. They would prefer one of the private schools they were accepted to, but going into debt doesn’t make any sense.

We have a great business model of having to beg for money. It's the American way.

https://sjsm.org/admissions/scholarships/dr-jay-k-pandit-memorial-scholarship/

https://www.mua.edu/academics/programs/5-year-md-program

https://www.mua.edu/admissions/mua-scholarships

https://medical.rossu.edu/admissions/scholarships

https://www.aucmed.edu/admissions/scholarships#summit

https://avalonu.org/financials/scholarships/

How low can you go? It's like Russian roulette where the more you can pay, the fewer bullets there are.

Jokes aside, I wonder if we'll start to see more med students going to places like these for the price.

You mean the poor redneck deplorable Eastern Shore magas have some sort of socialism. Ironic.

You can also have your medical school loans waived if you go and work in Salisbury for several years. (Poor underserved area.) All of the gyn/obstetricians in Salisbury are on this program. Otherwise there would be no one to deliver babies on the lower Eastern Shore.

Join the military to have the US govt pay for your med school.