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Maybe, but the smartest people I know all rabidly hate bureaucracy and credentialism. And if you're smart, why not go into finance / tech instead? No education requirements past college, and you can start earning good money immediately out of school. You even get a decent work life balance in the case of tech.

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> No education requirements past college

No formal ones. But you better keep up.

I know a few med people and a big one for them is risk aversion. Medicine never has a recession. There will never be a glut of doctors. You don’t need to job hunt every 2 years.

Because, as difficult to believe as it may be to some people, some people are not all about money since the beginning. Some remain idealistic well into their thirties and earn a medical degree.

Once you've got it though... that's when it starts to be difficult to stay idealistic and optimistic.

They probably should significantly be about the money considering they will likely be entering their 30s with a few hundred thousand dollars of debt.

Staring down the barrel of spending your 20s doing arduous, stressful work while your friends have fun, passing prime relationship building years, entering into final childbearing years...not much room for idealism once reality hits.

No, we probably ought to have a system where they don't need to be.

> No education requirements past college

leetcode. gotta keep up even if you're 15 years deep in the tech industry

Yeah, but there's no leetcode degree and you move at your own pace. 1000x better than school.

I would 100% rather get a 1 time credential than go through the current interview process every few years.

1 time credential... do you know how much compulsory continued education MDs have to go through every year?

Yeah my wife is an MD. Most of her continuing education is just part of her job and she gets paid for most of it.

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