T
he medical profession seems caught in a Catch-22: The growing cost of medical education is generating crushing levels of debt. This debt, in turn, is contributing to a doctor shortage and discouraging students from filling our growing needs for primary care physicians serving in poor, rural, and other underserved areas.
There is hope, however, as students return to campus. A single solution involving the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program can solve both problems if educators and government can come together and transform debt relief into an instrument for improving health care.
The numbers are stark and dispiriting. Seventy-six percent of medical students graduate with education loans, according to the Association of American M…
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