Lowering the cost of health care requires lowering the cost of medical education

The costs of medical education must be reduced as part of efforts to reign in health care costs more generally, according to a Perspective published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. The currently high costs of medical education - which at some schools rise above $60,000 per year - are sustainable only if physician salaries remain high, which the authors, led by a physician from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, say is less likely because of efforts to reduce health care costs...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news