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Yes, medical school is ridiculously expensive, but what you're saying doesn't necessarily follow. It's not like all their money comes from tuition and once they

Yes, medical school is ridiculously expensive, but what you're saying doesn't necessarily follow. It's not like all their money comes from tuition and once they spend all that money that's it. The medical school might be taking a loss on the program, using grant money, etc. Maybe they did raise tuition $500. There isn't enough data to tell.

RK 16y ago
My understanding is that medical school is ridiculously expensive, because it costs so much to pay people with MD's, even if the just stand in front of a room full of people for an hour and do absolutely nothing. Other people trained in similar environments (physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses) don't require significantly different materials for their educations, but their tuitions are generally much cheaper. They also tend to have few or no MD's teaching them.
- carbocation 16y ago
  Oh my, this is not the case. The clinical faculty are subsidizing the education of the students whom they teach. Basically, our educators are the same people who bring in revenue from patient care - they get paid much less than they bring in. Those who don't do much patient care are still bringing in gobs of revenue from their research grants. I just wanted to make it clear that our educators are subsidizing us, not the other way around.
duck 16y ago
Even if the tuition doesn't go up, you are paying for it one way or another. Grant money comes from somewhere and in most cases that is your money (taxes) as well (and if not, then it is coming from corporations like Apple). I would really doubt any school would take a loss on something like this, but even if that was the case you are paying for that too since sooner or later that loss has to be recouped (either through tuition or some reduction in services).

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Yes, medical school is ridiculously expensive, but what you're saying doesn't necessarily follow. It's not like all their money comes from tuition and once they

by johnswamps 16y ago

RK 16y ago
My understanding is that medical school is ridiculously expensive, because it costs so much to pay people with MD's, even if the just stand in front of a room full of people for an hour and do absolutely nothing. Other people trained in similar environments (physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses) don't require significantly different materials for their educations, but their tuitions are generally much cheaper. They also tend to have few or no MD's teaching them.
- carbocation 16y ago
  Oh my, this is not the case. The clinical faculty are subsidizing the education of the students whom they teach. Basically, our educators are the same people who bring in revenue from patient care - they get paid much less than they bring in. Those who don't do much patient care are still bringing in gobs of revenue from their research grants. I just wanted to make it clear that our educators are subsidizing us, not the other way around.
duck 16y ago
Even if the tuition doesn't go up, you are paying for it one way or another. Grant money comes from somewhere and in most cases that is your money (taxes) as well (and if not, then it is coming from corporations like Apple). I would really doubt any school would take a loss on something like this, but even if that was the case you are paying for that too since sooner or later that loss has to be recouped (either through tuition or some reduction in services).