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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 think this may be a similar thing to law school in that in other parts of the world, it isn't always a post-graduate degree (though technically, a law degree still isn't a post-grad degree anyways) but I digress. You can get into some programs having only completed a portion of an undergrad but it isn't the norm. You have to be a truly incredible candidate because there is no shortage of excellent candidates who have completed a degree.
My own view is that it's better that they have completed a bachelors before a JD or MD. Lawyers and Doctors deal with stuff that is frankly too important to be entrusted to a 22-23 year old. A couple of extra years makes a big difference in development in your early twenties; I know I was a completely different person by then.