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Old 11-10-2014, 04:36 PM
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This whole thing is off track from the get-go, based on a faulty premise.

The dr. shortage is not due to their years of schooling or curriculum. It's due to fewer residency positions than there are graduates coming out of med school.

Required residency training is paid for in large part with Medicare funds, (supplying doctors in training at lower pay at teaching hospitals) and Medicare funding to the training programs is being cut by Congress, not increased:

New England Journal of Medicine -The Residency Mismatch
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