focus -WSS

focus

author：comprehensive 2025-10-01 14:15:37 - browse：6

In 2018, New York University became the first U.S. medical school to go tuition free. Since then, a handful of others have followed with many more considering similar programs. One hope for free tuition endeavors is that lower post-graduation debt will increase the number of med students who choose lower-paying, desperately needed careers in primary care and pediatrics. But free tuition programs are not necessarily delivering on that promise.

In this episode of the First Opinion Podcast, University of Pennsylvania oncologist and researcher Ezekiel Emanuel and Matthew Guido, a project manager in the Healthcare Transformation Institute, discuss their original research on tuition-free programs with former host Pat Skerrett, who is filling in while Torie Bosch is on maternity leave. They make the case that medical school debt is only one of many factors that influence new doctors to choose less-popular specialties and geographic locations for their residencies. Other factors including prestige, the lifetime earning potential of higher-pay specialties, which can add several millions dollars over a career, can have more sway than student debt alone. This is especially important, they say, as needs for patients with chronic illnesses are rapidly outpacing the number of primary care physicians available to give that care.

“We have undervalued both philosophically and also financially the complications of managing chronic illness,” Emanuel says. “Can we rebalance the payment system that rewards the improvements in health and therefore the attention to chronic illness through primary care?”

You can read more about Emanuel and Guido’s opinions in their essay “Free med school tuition won’t solve the shortage of primary care physicians.”

Be sure to sign up for the weekly “First Opinion Podcast” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts. And don’t forget to sign up for the First Opinion newsletter to read each week’s best First Opinion essays.

Previous article： Moonlake's readout produced a cash windfall. Risks remain
Next article： Medicare explains how it will choose drugs for negotiation

Wikipedia

WSS

Fla. should 'correct' controversial slavery curriculum: Republican Rep. Byron Donalds

NYU Langone launches private ChatGPT for its health care data

What AstraZeneca

FDA panel gives mixed vote on blood pressure devices

Japan raises alarm over China's military, Russia ties and Taiwan tensions in new defense paper

In science, is the line between industry and academia shifting?

leisure time

focus

explore

The Supreme Court will review a ruling striking down a domestic violence federal gun ban

Australia’s approach to dialysis celebrates life

Medical records are filled with copy

Trump PAC spent more than $40M on legal bills this year as his charges mount: Sources

Anesthesiologist group: stop taking Ozempic before surgery

Doctors increasingly discourage vaping amid mounting health concerns

The high cost of giving birth even with insurance

CDC advisory panel says seniors 'may' get RSV vaccine

After affirmative action ruling, medical educators look to 'holistic review'

AstraZeneca challenges Medicare drug negotiation program

explore

Apellis safety probe of eye disease drug centers on injection needle

Neuroscience startup Neumora files for IPO

How to make Best Hospitals ratings actually useful for patients

Complete sequence of Y chromosome published for first time

2024 GOP presidential candidates spar over abortion in debate

Complete sequence of Y chromosome published for first time

entertainment

leisure time

Wikipedia

focus