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Not to mention knock-on-effects of teens trying to decide what to be when they grow up. Some would-be-docs are going to read this and go, huh, maybe I should pi
by withinboredom 4y ago
Not to mention knock-on-effects of teens trying to decide what to be when they grow up. Some would-be-docs are going to read this and go, huh, maybe I should pick a professional field that AI won’t take over. And bam, in 15 years, there are slightly less docs.
- idrios 4y agoAt least in the US there are more people who want to be doctors than positions available. The bottleneck is medical school acceptance rates. To practice medicine you need a medical license, which you can only get from an accredited university. I knew students who were rejected from medical school, but I also knew far more students who were at one time pre-med, saw how much effort and debt that would-be doctors would need to take on, and saw the risk of pursuing an e.g. biology degree where their entire future hinges on getting into med school, and they chose a different field.