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by hx87
3472 days ago
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The cost of education isn't a obstacle to people getting into medicine, except indirectly by slowing down the opening of new medical schools or expansion of existing ones--otherwise we'd be seeing lots of open spots in and reduce competition for admission to medical schools, which certainly isn't the case. Moreover, new medical schools with a total of 1000+ seats have opened in the past few years. The real bottleneck is in the number of residency slots, which hasn't changed in 20 years. |
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Aren't you just refering to the 20-year freeze on the number of medicare-financed residents? I believe the number of residents is still increasing through other funding. Or is there some other way to square your statement with this?:
> Medical school seniors scored a record number of available first-year slots in this year’s Main Residency Match... Continuing a 4-year growth trend, the number of available post-graduate year 1 (PGY-1) positions rose to 27,860 in 2016, 567 more spots than in 2015, and a record 18,668 U.S. allopathic medical school seniors registered for the match, 221 more than in 2015, according to data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). Family medicine residency programs offered 3,238 positions in 2016, up from 3,195 in the 2015 match. Internal medicine experienced similar increases, with residency programs offering 7,024 positions this year, up from 6,770 positions in 2015.
http://www.mdedge.com/internalmedicinenews/article/107413/pr...