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It’s not as competitive. I had classmates who were rejected by every Canadian and US medical school and ended up going to Ireland or France instead. (The one w

• mytailorisrich 3y ago
  Article says: > Lots of people want to train as doctors: over 85,000 people take the medical-college admission test each year, and more than half of all medical-school applicants are rejected But I believe that this means applications with a Bachelor degree. In France, the system is different. Students go to 1st year medical school after highschool where there is a massive selection with limited number of places to get to 2nd year. Only 15-25% of students get to 2nd year, taking into account that only good students will attend 1st year to start with. In the UK admission rate in 1st year (afte highschool) is about 15%, again taking into account that those who are not straight-As students probably don't bother applying to start with. This does not sound less competitive. If your French classmate had a bachelor degree but went back to 1st year in France that might have given him an advantage over students fresh out of highschool. In any case, according to the article it is the shortage of qualified profesisonals that should ultimately impact salaries, and there are shortages. But, again, salaries tend to be in effect regulated one way of another, which I think has much more of an impact.