The Inevitability of Debt in Medical Education Questioned

Tackling the Problem of Medical Student Debt by Pauline Chen. M.D.  Well Blog.  The New York Times.  December 13, 2012.

Institutions including the Geffen School of Medicine at U.C.L.A, the new medical school at the University of Central Florida, and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine have, through philanthropic donations, taken steps to lessen or eliminate the extent of medical student debt.  Medical debt may deter many students from medical careers, deter them from family practice and toward lucrative specialities, lessen idealist commitment to service in order to retire debt.