November 10, 2006

Medical Schools Told to Change Priorities

By KATHERINE MANGAN

The new president of the Association of American Medical Colleges has called on medical schools to elevate the public good above their own self-interest by considering tuition caps, curtailing pork-barrel spending requests, and pursuing socially beneficial research projects even if they are not profitable.

Median tuition and fees have soared 312 percent at public medical schools since 1984, and the average medical student graduates owing $120,300, the president, Darrell G. Kirch, told

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