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Reading [http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/16/why-your-waiter-has-an-m-d/?hpt=hp_c2 this] article, I have a question. Bolded, as it is kind of buried in the middle. It is a fact that in the United States the number of medical residency positions yearly available is less than the number of yearly graduates from medical school. Not only is this so, to exacerbate it, some of those residency positions in a given year get taken up by people who failed to get in on previous years, so there's a 100% chance that some people can't use the medical degree they just spent four years and probably a couple hundred thousand dollars on (for at least a year, and for some, ever). If this is the case, and if hospitals refuse to, for budgetary or otherwise reasons, increase the number of residency positions, <b>where are sources from proponents stating how it is responsible for medical schools to not reduce the number of students they take in, knowing that if they continue to take more and more in, more than a handful will be screwed in four years</b>? I know the business world has no moral compass, and taking more people's money is defined as the <i>right</i> thing to do, but one would hope that the medical education institution could, just possibly, have a set of ethics more human-centered. Once again, premises, as cited in the article: 1) There are fewer residency positions available than medical school graduates, 2) The relative number of residency positions is not increasing, or even holding ground, 3) The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has called for a 30% increase in medical school enrollment, or 5,000 more doctors each year. College universities have responded to this demand, with 18 new medical schools currently in the process of opening. I'd like to see the arguments justifying increasing the number of med school graduates given this state of affairs. [[Special:Contributions/20.137.18.53|20.137.18.53]] ([[User talk:20.137.18.53|talk]]) 17:07, 17 September 2012 (UTC)