Mortgaging Our Future — The Cost of Medical Education
- 13 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 352 (2) , 117-119
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp048089
Abstract
The cost of obtaining a medical education has been spiraling upward for the past 20 years. Despite a lot of rhetoric in articles1,2 and at meetings of the Association of American Medical Colleges, nothing has happened to change the alarming pattern. The average tuition and fees at public medical schools during the 2003–2004 academic year amounted to $16,153, and the corresponding figure for private schools was $32,588.3 Adding $20,000 to $25,000 for living expenses, books, and equipment brings the estimated cost of four years of attendance to about $140,000 for public schools and $225,000 for private schools.The continuing . . .Keywords
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