Medical Student Case Study

Medical Students

1. What top issues affect medical students and medical schools today according to AAMC ? Each year in the United States a significant number of students apply for Medical schools. Hoping to become physicians in the many fields’ of practices that are offered. Medical schools are expensive and the standards are at high level of intelligence. To become a medical student one must be ready to approach learning with high admiration. But there are many issues at the forefront of Medical schools, and students are confronted with complicated problems. For example, the issue of medical residents becoming unionized, and sexual harassment against female physicians, and let’s not forget the high cost of education. Also with intense training, and teaching, some medical students face the dilemma of anxiety and stress. According to Greenberg (2013), in 2006 Mayo Clinic implemented a study indicating that students enter medical school with mental health profiles similar to their peers from college. “But they begin to show

In the profession of medicine many things can occur, and being a medical student or physician can be risky. Malpractice lawsuits have determined the future of doctors’ faith when it comes to medical practice. For example, each physician and training physician has to be insured to cover cost of any accidents that occur during their practice. However, reasons such as the rate of pay that medical residents receive while working at teaching hospitals, is considered to be very low (AAMC, 2013). Most teaching hospitals gross about 200 million a year, and medical residents only receive about 40 to 50 thousand a year, which is not a bad start. But with medical students coming straight out of medical school expense can be demanding, and paying back student loans can also be a hardship. The government has and is still implementing ways to cut the cost for medical students and residents, which involves changing some already existing