Why is medical education so expensive?

• 来源期刊: 生物医学研究杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（4）
• 页码范围: 326-327
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.7555/JBR.28.20140040

摘要

Dear Editor: The world currently spends $100 billion annually on medical education[1].This seems like a massive amount at a macroeconomic level.At a microeconomic level,medical school tuition fees in many countries are now as high as $14,000 per year.This will seem like a massive amount to an 18-year-old school leaver from an average financial background.Economic depressions make both figures seem even larger-to the state and to the individual.With so much cost at stake-at a financial and human level-I believe that it is worth asking why medical education is so expensive.Searching for the answers leads to some unexpected places.