Doctors are in short supply. This is because becoming a doctor is impossibly hard
That's an entirely artificial problem created by the AMA (or BMA in the UK) to keep wages high. What if everyone who had the academic ability could train, rather than having to compete for a restricted number of slots? It's how every other discipline does it (they defer competing for places until the job market).
This is a huge problem. The limiting factor appears to be the number of residency spots, not the number of accepted medical school students.
We should take some of the billions our Federal government spends and increase the number of residency spots and increase funding for tuition reimbursement for practicing in underserved areas.
I can't personally speak to the accuracy of the linked claim below, but it suggests that the coverage of residency spots is controlled by a physician led advisory board called RUC that intentionally limits the reimbursement so as to control wages.
I'm sorry, but if someone is going to be cutting into my body, I want them well trained and I want them to have dissected a human. I don't want someone who "moves fast and breaks things" puking on my exposed parts.
That's an entirely artificial problem created by the AMA (or BMA in the UK) to keep wages high. What if everyone who had the academic ability could train, rather than having to compete for a restricted number of slots? It's how every other discipline does it (they defer competing for places until the job market).