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Originally Posted by D as in David
As a father of a child who will be applying to med school this fall, I'd really appreciate it if they made a concerted effort to boost the number of spots.
As an aside, I just read today that Canada and the U.S. are two of the few (only?) countries that require an undergrad degree prior to attending med school.
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I don't think the 2nd paragraph is entirely true. for a really long time now I guess undergrad degrees (and frankly often more) might be considered the 'norm' in Canada but they aren't required- I'll just link to UofT below which I found quickly on the googles (3 years required), although I think the proportion without an undergrad degree is probably pretty small
https://applymd.utoronto.ca/academic-requirements
definitely this is less true in many countries in Europe- for example- although often kids are getting in straight out of highschool but doing (I think ) 6-7 year programs (and in some countries at least historically then often with weird long postgrad/residency journeys), so I don't think they were always shaving major years off the problem
I appreciate that its a long haul and the money required is a lot (and increasing and of course this leads to a lot of other inequities) but in my observation its not a horrible thing to have someone having pursued an undergrad prior to med school (and not always for the course content per se)