Every year I hear about qualified premeds not getting into med school because there are so few spots. Why are qualified people being turned away if there’s a worsening doctor shortage in the US?
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Open positions for medical school are limited. Internship/residency is federally limited. Even if you could make more med school openings they can’t become practicing doctors without the residency, so you’d just saddle students with med school debt and no way for them to earn enough to pay it back.
Until there is a federal will to make it easier to create and expand residency options there will be a shortage of training and therefore stiffer competition.
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