Rationing medical education

Rationing medical education.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of rationing in medical education. Medical education is expensive and there is a limit to that which governments, funders or individuals can spend on it. Rationing involves the allocation of resources that are limited. This paper discussed the pros and cons of the application of rationing to medical education and the different forms of rationing ...

Rationing Expensive Lifesaving Medical Resources

Rationing Medical Care: an Economist's Perspective

In this essay, prepared for a symposium in Economics and Philosophy . I identify some issues that arise in trying to bring the kind of economics I normally practice to this subject. I proceed by examining the parallels and differences between allocating medical care and several other allocation problems, starting with the distribution of income generally and then in the more specific context of...

Topics in medical economics: health care rationing.

Ideals in Medical Education Ideals in Medical Education

" Is it any depreciation of the great military geniuses of the past to say that, if suddenly plunged into the midst of a modern engagement, they would be worse than worthless, that, without the requisite knowledge and experience, their genius would be useless? Yet do we not desiderate that same genius for our own leaders, without which all their knowledge and experience are of no avail ?..... "...