I have a nephew currently going to medical school in Idaho (So by no means prestigious). By the time he's finished the expected tuition costs are $500,000. A

I have a nephew currently going to medical school in Idaho (So by no means prestigious). By the time he's finished the expected tuition costs are $500,000. A big reason you don't see family doctors in the sticks isn't because there aren't people that would love to be a small practice in the middle of nowhere. It's that nobody but a major medical institution can give them enough of a salary that they don't go broke under student debt.