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Reasons for student debt during medical education: a Michigan study.
The authors address the need for a better understanding of the reasons for greater indebtedness among today's osteopathic medical students. In May 2000, a survey was mailed to all 219 osteopathic interns at participating institutions in Michigan. The self-administered survey contained 19 questions designed to gather basic financial information, demographic characteristics, and subjective percep...
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study's purpose was to evaluate the relationship between medical student debt and primary care specialty choice, while examining the potentially confounding effects of family income and race/ethnicity. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was offered to all students at three medical schools between 2006 and 2008. The survey assessed students' anticipated educational...
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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 ...
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CONTEXT The cost of American medical education has increased substantially over the past decade. Given racial/ethnic inequalities in access to financial resources, it is plausible that increases in student debt burden resulting from these increases in cost may not be borne equally. OBJECTIVE To evaluate racial/ethnic disparities in medical student debt. DESIGN SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Autho...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199610000-00024