Scott thinks:
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More importantly, med schools are in competition with each other for
students, so
it's extremely unlikely that they would shoot their own feet just to
pander
to the AMA.
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Hmmm... are you sure they're in competition with each other? If I were
a university president, the last faculty I'd want to increase enrolment
in would be medicine. Just a quick google got me tuition figures for
med school in Arizona (albeit two conflicting figures: just under
$10,000 and just under $13,000 per year). I'll assume the figures are
comparable around the USA. Surely you're not going to claim that $9,000
covers the entire cost of a med student's education. There's going to
be a huge government subsidy that accompanies this $9,000.

Med Schools have to be a royal pain in the ass to university
administrators as they are incredibly capital intensive with constant
demands for upgrading. It's so much simpler/cheaper to pump up
admission into business schools where your major expenditures are
chalk-and-talk seminars.

So, Scott, I doubt very much that there's competition between
universities to get med school students.

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