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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 22:45:51 -0400
To: medsoc@csf.colorado.edu
From: Phil Brown <Phil_Brown@brown.edu>
Subject: query on medical school
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Here is a query from Janet Maher of the Medical Reform Group, a voluntary
association of socially
concerned physicians and medical students who advocate for universal,
accessible health care through a range of strategies including attention to
the
social determinants of health and a multi-disciplinary team approach to health
care and illness prevention:

We have some concern that escalating tuition fees and a mounting student debt
load may be forces for changing the profile of entrants to the medical
profession to less rather than more reflective of the population at large. For
the most part, however, we are specialists in clinical, not social sciences,
and so we are seeking your advice and any current research you might direct us
to on one or more of the following questions: 
 Who gets in to medical school?  
 What are the attitudes and career plans/decisions of graduates, has this
changed in recent years? And if so, how? 
 What is the impact of different levels of tuition fees on the socio-economic
profile of medical school students? 
 What is the impact of different debt load levels on the attitudes of
graduating physicians in terms of their sense of entitlement, their feelings
about what level of income they should achieve, and their sense of dedication
and commitment to the public? 
I look forward to your early reply and would be pleased to share the final
product when it is completed.

Janet Maher

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Janet Maher
Medical Reform Group
Toronto Canada
(416) 588-9167 [voice]; (416) 782-9054 [fax]
mrg@web.net/jemaher@web.net  
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