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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 f
by 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 agoOh 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.