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Another Associate Dean’s Response to “Drowning in Student Debt”

31. July 2010

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A second response to this website’s recent post, Drowning in Student Debt: Young Professionals at the End of Graduate School, has been received from Doctor Michael D. Prislin, Associate Dean of Students of the University of California, Irvine Medical School. The economic circumstances that young professionals often find themselves in following completion of their studies [...]

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The “Worst Paying” Physician Specialties: An Internet Forum of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access

28. July 2010

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The Internet Forums of the National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will take selected topics for discussion between National Conferences. The following topic was suggested by a recent web posting by the Forbes Magazine, which was widely disseminated by the Yahoo Finance website: On Monday, July 19 2010, www.forbes.com, the Internet site for Forbes [...]

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An Associate Dean’s Response to “Drowning in Student Debt”

19. July 2010

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The following response to Drowning in Student Debt: Young Professionals at the End of Graduate School, recently posted on this website, was received from Gary L. LeRoy, MD, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Admissions, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio The best advice that I received when I was contemplating a career in medicine was to [...]

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Issues in Implementation of Health Care Reform Legislation: Part One – Student Indebtedness

24. June 2010

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Over the past 21 years, the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access have identified many factors that have resulted in observable imbalances between primary and subspecialty medical care and imbalances between public health needs and the resources applied to them. The most recent National Conference (April 2010) examined some of the consequences of the [...]

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Drowning in Student Debt: Young Professionals at the End of Graduate School

24. June 2010

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When we think of two young professionals married to each other, we think that these two people have nothing in the world economically to worry about.  Unfortunately, for most professionals coming out of their respective graduate schools, the reality can be quite different. The reality is student loan debt with interest rates that are running [...]

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