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medical student debt

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The amount of financial obligations or monies owed—with accruing interest—to various parties by a medical student, usually understood to mean at the time of graduation from medical school
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medical student debt

The amount of financial obligations or monies owed with (accruing) interest to various parties by a medical student
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Therefore, they are fearful that they will not be able to pay their significant medical student debt. The median medical student debt in 2008 was approximately $145,000 for students at public medical schools and $180,000 for those at private medical schools (1).
Fear drives residents away from primary care
Dr Ram Moorthy, chairman of the junior doctors' committee, said: "Medical student debt, which already stands at an average pounds 20,000, is expected to rise considerably in the next few years.
Hospital housing victory for first-year doctors; Madeleine Brindley, Health Editor, reports from the BMA's annual representatives' meeting in Edinburgh
While medical student debt reform is an important short-term solution, it will only provide a patch for the system.
Mass. residents face primary care shortage
The average medical student debt now stands at pounds 22,000 and is taking an average of 11 years to pay off after graduation.
'Poor Welsh pupils face cost barrier to studying medicine'
Medical student debt is another contributing factor, Dr.
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The family physicians' list of most important problems gave a higher priority to issues relating to family medicine, such as maldistribution of physicians in primary care and subspecialties, shortage of primary care physicians, lack of financial support for primary care, and excessive medical student debt.
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