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Originally Posted by Mull
I don't know the answers to your points, they are good points. I do think it would be quicker and easier to see results however to simply increase perks and pay in rural areas vs a system overall which may have unintended consequences.
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The cost problem of health care isn’t solved buy increasing rural pay and the general shortage of workers is not solved by increasing rural pay.
I do like the idea in the short term of things like week in week out to service communities.
A massive investment in training or international recruitment are going to be required to meet demographic challenges.
I missed the last part of your post by relying early but in terms of people changing their minds I look at it as you made a decision to pursue your dream of medicine. You didn’t qualify for the more flexible options or you wanted to have the financial benefits in either scenario you made a decision because you didn’t have another option to pursue your medicine dream. So the theoretical person isn’t making a choice between their preferred major it’s a medicine degree or not having a medicine degree.
We already do this all the time where we deny people placement into various specialties and programs and even access to university because they didn’t qualify. We think it’s fair because we believe that grades are self determined and people have control so we wash our hands of it. I see this as no different if you wanted to have flexibility you should have qualified for the flexible program it’s cold but no different than discipline selection based on academics.