Ethicist Art Caplan discusses free medical school tuition's impact on growing number, diversity of primary care physicians.
Served as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant, or trustee for: Johnson & Johnson's Panel for Compassionate Drug Use NYU's Grossman School of Medicine has, for a number of years now, been tuition free. Not only are we tuition free, we have a second medical school that we operate on Long Island, NYU Long Island, a smaller medical school, which is also tuition free.
The average cost at a private medical school in the US is very, very high. It can be as much as, I believe, $250,000 to go through med school, and obviously, you may also come out saddled with debt from your undergraduate years. I think there's some truth in that, but not as much, I fear, as proponents of free tuition may believe. We see some impact at NYU on specialty choice, but not much. So far, I don't think there's been a drastic move — maybe a little trickle, but not a big jump toward primary care specialty.
Other people wonder whether we get more diversity from having free tuition. The NYU experiment does show some growth in diversity, but it isn't clear whether that diversity growth is taking away from other schools because our school became more attractive because of free tuition, or whether we're adding overall to diversity within the medical profession.
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