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The Impact of Medical School Loans and the Promise of Loan Repayment on Entry Into a Pediatric Academic Career
Russell W. Chesney, MD
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:1296-1297.
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The decision to choose a career in biomedical bench research, clinical
research, epidemiology, or health services research by current medical students
and pediatric residents has undergone a decline during the past decade.1 For more than 80% of graduates, the current career
choice of individuals finishing a pediatric residency is to directly enter
general pediatric practice (ABP). This perceived shift in career choice away
from a clinician scientist's career path and into primary care has received
extensive comment2, 3, 4
by both pediatricians and physicians in other disciplines. Among the stated
reasons for this erosion in interest in a pediatric research career is the
burden of medical school and other educational indebtedness that requires
the initiation of repayment at the end of residency.5
Debts exceeding $100 000 are not uncommon. For medical students who marry
other physicians in training, this debt burden may double.
The Task Force on the Future . . . [Full Text of this Article] Features of Pediatric Loan Repayment Plan
From the Department of Pediatrics, LeBonheur Children's Medical Center,
University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, Memphis.
Corresponding author: Russell W. Chesney, MD, Department of Pediatrics,
LeBonheur Children's Medical Center, University of Tennessee Center for Health
Sciences, 50 N Dunlap, Suite 306, Memphis, TN 38103 (e-mail: rchesney@utmem.edu).
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