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Medical Student Debt: What Perspective Should We Take?
Since medical education is expensive, healthcare professional students in many countries must take out loans to pay for their studies. The resultant levels of debt have created concerns at both the beginning and the end of undergraduate education. How should medical educators respond to these concer...
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The Korean Academy of Family Medicine
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515507/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217478 http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.2015.36.4.159 |
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description | Since medical education is expensive, healthcare professional students in many countries must take out loans to pay for their studies. The resultant levels of debt have created concerns at both the beginning and the end of undergraduate education. How should medical educators respond to these concerns? If educators are to look at medical education from the perspective of their students who are most in need, then they should think about this. Educators should think about their response when current or prospective students ask them about mitigating the costs of medical education. This may include questions about working during undergraduate studies, the costs of living in different locations, and the availability of bursaries that offer financial aid to students. Medical students should be encouraged to "think like an investor" when making decisions related to their medical education. Senior medical educators should be well placed to advise them in this regard. |
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spelling | pubmed-45155072015-07-27 Medical Student Debt: What Perspective Should We Take? Walsh, Kieran Korean J Fam Med Editorial Since medical education is expensive, healthcare professional students in many countries must take out loans to pay for their studies. The resultant levels of debt have created concerns at both the beginning and the end of undergraduate education. How should medical educators respond to these concerns? If educators are to look at medical education from the perspective of their students who are most in need, then they should think about this. Educators should think about their response when current or prospective students ask them about mitigating the costs of medical education. This may include questions about working during undergraduate studies, the costs of living in different locations, and the availability of bursaries that offer financial aid to students. Medical students should be encouraged to "think like an investor" when making decisions related to their medical education. Senior medical educators should be well placed to advise them in this regard. The Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2015-07 2015-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4515507/ /pubmed/26217478 http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.2015.36.4.159 Text en Copyright © 2015 The Korean Academy of Family Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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title | Medical Student Debt: What Perspective Should We Take? |
title_full | Medical Student Debt: What Perspective Should We Take? |
title_fullStr | Medical Student Debt: What Perspective Should We Take? |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical Student Debt: What Perspective Should We Take? |
title_short | Medical Student Debt: What Perspective Should We Take? |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515507/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217478 http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.2015.36.4.159 |
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