It’s hard to compare medical education between countries because some counties will have shorter medical school lengths but longer residency requirements. And

It’s hard to compare medical education between countries because some counties will have shorter medical school lengths but longer residency requirements. And official durations are often different than the amount of time it actually takes students. In Germany for example med school is 6 years, but the average student completes it in about 7. A US student with some AP credits from high school and a few summer classes could easy finish university in 3 years and end up taking the same amount of time as the average German medical student. But even looking at averages at the end of the day doctor’s salaries are a small fraction of overall medical costs so shaving a year off of the average training times isn’t going to make a dent. The US also doesn’t have a national high school curriculum, so removing general education requirements from the university + medschool pipeline, which is essentially what countries with shorter total training times do, is a harder problem than it is in Europe.