Are We Mortgaging the Medical Profession?

Abstract

AMONG young physicians with outstanding debts for their medical education at the time of graduation, the average debt was $46,224 in 1990, an increase of 77 percent since 1980, after adjustment for inflation.¹ The increase in debt burden is of concern to medical educators, health policy makers, and of course medical students and physicians themselves.^{2 , 3}