100%. The US/Can approach also limits/compresses the potential career length. Make it ~6 years and out, straight from high school (if you so please). It kinda w

100%. The US/Can approach also limits/compresses the potential career length. Make it ~6 years and out, straight from high school (if you so please). It kinda works like this already in Quebec: you can enter medical school straight out of CEGEP. It's also a meritocratic matter: you have to take a lot of risk to make a go for medical school, and the best candidates may not be able to afford the risk of failing to achieve their med school goal and ending up with a degree with ??? value, so the best may not take that path. Or worse, taking an easier degree program (to beef up their grades and have time for other application-enhancing activities) and not getting themselves educated to their full potential.