For-profit medical schools hope to address healthcare shortages
Residency Program Insider, June 24, 2016
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
In the past few years, several for-profit medical schools have opened in hopes of increasing the number of physicians in underserved and rural areas without relying on taxpayer dollars. However, critics question whether for-profit medical schools and private companies can properly train the next generation of physicians.
Proponents of for-profit medical schools liken any stigma to that previously faced by for-profit hospitals. About one-quarter of U.S. hospitals are now for-profit. They also argue that opening state-run programs is more costly. For students who fail to gain acceptance to state programs, for-profit schools may be a viable option.
Source: Associated Press
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
Related Products
-
Residency Program Alert
Residency program managers in all specialties are challenged to effectively manage their programs as accrediting agencies...
-
Residency Program Insider
Residency Program Connection is devoted to bringing residency directors and coordinators expert advice, best practice...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Clearing up the confusion: CPT codes 76376 and 76377
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- Neurological checks for head injuries
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions
- Implications of CMS Changes to H&P Requirements
- E-mailed
- Searched
