Be very careful with what you're suggesting and to what degree.
I live in a country that has taken "we need more doctors" to the max and opened hundreds of new medical schools backed by student loans. As a result, the medical profession has become a shadow of its former self. It used to be that only the best students would be selected for medical school. Nowadays any moron can become a doctor.
Pay is nosediving since about 40 thousand new doctors enter the market every year or so. Emergency rooms are supposed to attract the most experienced, most cold blooded doctors in the field. Here they have turned into total shit jobs that only attract the heavily indebted and quite possibly incompetent newly minted doctors.
Do you know how much damage a stupid indebted inexperienced doctor can cause? People are going to fucking die. I'm actually afraid of getting sick.
> If there are more doctors, they will need to need to spread further into regions where they're in demand.
Yeah, that's essentially my country's strategy. Squeeze doctors so much they'll have no choice but to relocate to the literal Amazon jungle in search for jobs.
Would you like to live in the jungle? Raise a family there? I sure as hell wouldn't. There's a reason the doctors are all concentrated in the capital. Same reason why people migrate to the capital. No one actually wants to live in some undeveloped shithole.
"They will need" betrays the fact you think you're qualified to dictate the careers and life paths of an entire category of people. That borders on magical thinking: if you squeeze them, then they'll do what you want the way you want it. No such deal exists. People have any number of options laid out for them. They can just as easily give up on medicine altogether, take their capital and start a business instead. I've actually seen a few do just that. Buy trucks and start a goddamn logistics business because medicine wasn't cutting it anymore.
Not to dismiss your claims but the profession is tightly regulated in every developed country in the world. So even if there was an oversupply of doctors in your country, the high bar to getting licensed ( med school and afterwards specialist training) is still the same for everyone.
> the high bar to getting licensed ( med school and afterwards specialist training) is still the same for everyone
Oversupplying doctors will lower that bar one way or another. Medical schools are a bottleneck? Race them to the bottom. Fund hundreds of them so that it's always possible for any student to find one that'll accept them. Problem solved. Now the medical licensing process has become the bottleneck. Millions will be spent on lobbying in order to subvert it via whatever means. Once that's done, medical specialization will turn into the bottleneck. Repeat.
No system retains its integrity when you inject billions into it via loans. And that's just financial interests. Factor in the fact reelections of politicians might very well ride on their providence of more doctors to the population. Just look at the post I replied to:
> This is a problem that we as voters should start to act upon.
That's the sort of populism that could very well decide elections. Politicians do not give a shit about anything other than reelection, least of all the quality of the doctors their voters are getting. They will always be able to afford the best care.
Realize that it's against my interests to warn citizens of developed nations about this. If I were a socipathic person, I would be praising their openness since it could facilitate my own immigration into their countries. I genuinely don't want to watch other people suffer the same fate.
Then what you have is a large group of unemployed indebted people. Are we sure that there are even enough competent people that we trust to do medicine in the first place? Maybe the reality is such that we simply don't have that many potential and qualified people in the first place.
The standards to become a medical doctor in the 70s-90s compared to the 2000s and the 2010s are vast. There is a lot of extra bullshit now required to become a doctor like volunteering in africa and a person with A average GPA failing to get in, while if they were in the 80s, did not require to do that. Start with getting rid of the absolutely stupid barriers.
It's not required - you just need to be a promising and interesting student. Most of the students I send to medical school get there by doing undergraduate research.
Be very careful with what you're suggesting and to what degree.
I live in a country that has taken "we need more doctors" to the max and opened hundreds of new medical schools backed by student loans. As a result, the medical profession has become a shadow of its former self. It used to be that only the best students would be selected for medical school. Nowadays any moron can become a doctor.
Pay is nosediving since about 40 thousand new doctors enter the market every year or so. Emergency rooms are supposed to attract the most experienced, most cold blooded doctors in the field. Here they have turned into total shit jobs that only attract the heavily indebted and quite possibly incompetent newly minted doctors.
Do you know how much damage a stupid indebted inexperienced doctor can cause? People are going to fucking die. I'm actually afraid of getting sick.
> If there are more doctors, they will need to need to spread further into regions where they're in demand.
Yeah, that's essentially my country's strategy. Squeeze doctors so much they'll have no choice but to relocate to the literal Amazon jungle in search for jobs.
Would you like to live in the jungle? Raise a family there? I sure as hell wouldn't. There's a reason the doctors are all concentrated in the capital. Same reason why people migrate to the capital. No one actually wants to live in some undeveloped shithole.
"They will need" betrays the fact you think you're qualified to dictate the careers and life paths of an entire category of people. That borders on magical thinking: if you squeeze them, then they'll do what you want the way you want it. No such deal exists. People have any number of options laid out for them. They can just as easily give up on medicine altogether, take their capital and start a business instead. I've actually seen a few do just that. Buy trucks and start a goddamn logistics business because medicine wasn't cutting it anymore.