Posted on 07/08/2024 11:38:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
Johns Hopkins medical school will be free for most students starting this fall, thanks to a $1 billion donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Tuition will be completely free for medical students whose families earn less than $300,000, with the gift also covering living expenses and fees for students from families earning up to $175,000.
Previously, tuition was roughly $65,000 a year for four years.
The gift aims to improve declining life expectancy in the U.S. by making medical and nursing school more accessible to lower-income students and diversifying the medical and public health fields.
"As the U.S. struggles to recover from a disturbing decline in life expectancy, our country faces a serious shortage of doctors, nurses, and public health professionals — and yet, the high cost of medical, nursing and graduate school too often bars students from enrolling," said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bloomberg LP in a statement Monday. "By reducing the financial barriers to these essential fields, we can free more students to pursue careers they're passionate about — and enable them to serve more of the families and communities who need them the most."
Currently, future doctors graduate from Hopkins with an average total student loan debt of approximately $104,000, while the median debt from all medical schools 2023 graduates was $200,000, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Bloomberg's gift will lower the average student loan debt for Hopkins medical school graduates to $60,279 by 2029, with most students paying nothing at all, according to Bloomberg Philanthropies. In other words, it knocks down the hurdles that can prevent aspiring doctors from low-income families from pursuing careers in medicine.
The gift will also increase financial aid for students at its School of Nursing and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. It comes after the organization made a $1.8 billion financial aid donation to Johns Hopkins in 2018 to establish need-blind admissions for undergraduates.
The donation isn't the first to make medical school tuitinon free for students. In February, a $1 billion donation from Dr. Ruth L. Gottesman made Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, where she is a professor and board member, free for students in perpetuity.
The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine also waived all tuition and fees for students entered between the fall of 2020 through 2025. In another move to ease costs, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western University offers full scholarships to all students who are admitted.
Do you have to be colored to qualify?
Participation Certificates?
Funny thing is that this means they can increase the tuition now.
Charge them something and make the money last longer , no can’t do that it makes sense
“...give me one of those scalpel thingy’s”
Yes
Great!
How long before Joe takes credit?
Training a new crop of killers?
Now couple this with DEI and you have the makings of a medical disaster in ten years................
Or say it’s where he graduated from.
How many genders does John Hopkins Medical School say that exist?
According to Johns Hopkins own statistics
58% of its class are women
53% are Asian
27% are Caucasian
18% are something they call “Under-represented in medicine studies”. I guess that means “brown.”
Johns Hopkins is ranked as the 2nd best medical school in the USA with an acceptance rate of only 6%.
So in effect, this scholarship is welfare for already highly successful Asian women who worked very hard in Ivy League undergrad studies to get near perfect grades, and who also studied hard for the MCAT exam.
No, that might mean they’d be less proficient killers than intended!
Well, from now on I’m gonna look real close at those diplomas on the wall in my doctors offices.................
I hope that Johns Hopkins medical school does not permit group grades or pass/fail classes. If they do, DEI admissions will further erode the quality of our medical care
... or grading on a curve.................
And mentally ill
There's an old saying: you get what you paid for.
Johns Hopkins were the ones who organized Event 201 in October, 2019.
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