Comment by fallingknife

What they should do is scrap the current system. Students should be able to enter med school straight out of HS. This is how it's done in Europe and their doctors are just as good as ours. The existing residency system should also be torn down. It is so exploitative that it had to be given a specific exemption from anti-trust laws to even be legal. Residents should instead be licensed as a junior level of doctor similar to a resident, but not locked into a single hospital. This way they can move around between hospitals which will have to compete over them on pay / benefits and work life balance. There should also be programs to allow lower level medical staff like nurses and physicians assistants to advance to doctor without having to lose 4 years income and spend a fortune on medical school.