Medical school should revise their old-school ways of reaching that only leads to handicapped doctors that become slaves of corporate interests and government entities.

This is NO JOKE.

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“collective failure” of medical institutions to produce doctors engaged with society, both domestically and globally.

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is in large part due to how U.S. medical schools are run on the stateside of this equation. In the 1960′s there was a wave of volunteerism and interest in domestic issues, this gave way in the late 1990′s and early 21st Century to a medical culture where obtaining the most specialized. high-paying, and well regarded training position, such as a cardiologist or dermatologist, became the goal of most medical students. As a medical student in school fellow classmates would often give me a funny look when I talked about going abroad for a significant amount of time, often with disparaging remarks about the poor conditions in developing countries. However, I think that the biggest obstacle to student’s optimistic plans about pursuing global health lies in how medical students are taught in the cllinical years. Often, due to increased patient loads medical students more and more and being expected to manage more than six patients, in terms of scheduling radiographic procedures, monitoring labs and vitals with equipment more outdated than a modern supermarket, and also must “know their patients better than the intern, residents, and attending.” In addition, the pressure that attendings who grew up as residents in the Me Generation of the 1980s who are upset with lower than expected average earnings and increased workloads often results in medical student abuse, and this leads to depression and loss in interest in serving mankind abroad, and more interest in surviving the week at “school.” I think the model of the imperfect baby boomer is Bill Clinton, who while developed an interest in HIV/AIDS post-office to improve his presidential “legacy” also complained about his low presidential salary and dedicated himself to high-paying jobs post-presidency. I would wholeheartedly agree that there is a collective failure of medical schools to promote awareness of domestic issues, secondary to viewing medical students these days as cheap labor and not a resource for the immediate future needs of citizens everywhere.