纽约大学医学院8月16日宣布，它将向所有当前和未来的学生提供全额学费奖学金，无论其家庭状况，学校表现如何 - 这是应对医学教育成本上升的大胆尝试，将吸引最优秀和最聪明的人才从事医学职业。 它是全美唯一排名前10位的免除学费的医学院。

纽约大学医学院学生

医学院的理事，领导和教师们在一年一度的白大衣仪式结束时，做为一个惊喜，宣布了此消息。白大衣仪式由一年级的医学生和其家庭成员参加，每个新学生都会收到一件白色的实验室外套作为礼物，标志着其医学教育和培训的开始。

“鉴于我们的理事，校友和朋友的慷慨，我们的希望和期望是，通过让更多的申请人能够获得医学院培训的机会，我们将成为全国医学教育转型的催化剂，”纽约大学朗格健康董事会主席Kenneth G Langone说道。 奖学金所涵盖的每年学费为$55,018。

“这一决定也指出了必须解决的道德诉求，因为研究机构（大学）给渴望成为医生的年轻人增加了沉重的债务负担，”纽约大学医学院院长兼纽约大学朗格健康首席执行官医学博士Robert I. Grossman说。 

压倒性的学生债务正在从根本上改变医疗行业，对医疗保健产生负面影响。 由于学生贷款数额惊人，许多医学院毕业生选择收入较高的职业，而初级保健，儿科，妇产科等利润较少的领域人才流失严重。 此外，由于担心医学院相关的高费用，许多有前途的高中和大学生因财务状况不再考虑从事医学事业。

根据美国医学院协会的统计，2017年美国75％的医生毕业时负债。此外，私立医学院的医学教育（学费和学费）的成本中位数为59,605美元，当前医学毕业生的债务中位数是202,000美元。而且，从私立学校毕业的医生有21%的教育债务超过30万美元。

“像我们多样化的人群能得到来自各行业培育出的医生支持才是最好的，不应该让有抱负的医生和外科医师因为财务负担过重而无法从事医学事业，”Grossman博士说。

纽约大学医学院的领导者还认为，解决当今医学教育中的挑战不仅需要扩大入读医学院的人数，还需要对培训和资助我们如何做到这一点的渠道进行全面改造。

“免学费医学教育不仅包含学业和经济奖学金，以及其他学术中心传统上所偏爱的取消债务，”招生和经济援助副主任，医学博士，MBA，Rafael Rivera说道。 “更重要的是，它解决了医生的短缺和多样性问题。”

Rivera博士解释说，补助金很像奖励和经济援助，只有在学生选择了自己的职业道路之后才能获得。 “如果我们希望扩大渠道以培养最广泛，最有才华的学生群体，并为他们提供选择医学而不是其他职业的财务自由，那就太晚了。”

附：纽约大学网站原文

NYU School of Medicine Offers Full-Tuition Scholarships to All New & Current Medical Students

August 16, 2018 (11:30AM)

NYU School of Medicine announced today that it is offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD degree program regardless of need or merit—a bold effort to simultaneously address the rising costs of medical education and still attract the best and brightest students to careers in medicine. It is the only top 10–ranked medical school in the nation to do so.

The announcement from the medical school’s trustees, leaders, and faculty was delivered this morning to first-year medical students and family members as a surprise ending to the annual White Coat Ceremony, where each new student is presented with a white lab coat to mark the start of their medical education and training.

“Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of our trustees, alumni, and friends, our hope—and expectation—is that by making medical school accessible to a broader range of applicants, we will be a catalyst for transforming medical education nationwide,” says Kenneth G. Langone, chair of the Board of Trustees of NYU Langone Health. The yearly tuition costs covered by the scholarship are $55,018.

“This decision recognizes a moral imperative that must be addressed, as institutions place an increasing debt burden on young people who aspire to become physicians,” says Robert I. Grossman, MD, the Saul J. Farber Dean of NYU School of Medicine and CEO of NYU Langone Health.

Overwhelming student debt is fundamentally reshaping the medical profession in ways that are adversely affecting healthcare. Saddled with staggering student loans, many medical school graduates choose higher-paying specialties, drawing talent away from less lucrative fields like primary care, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology. Moreover, the financial barriers discourage many promising high school and college students from considering a career in medicine altogether due to fears about the costs associated with medical school.

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, 75 percent of all doctors in the U.S. graduated with debt in 2017. Additionally, the median cost of medical education (tuition and fees) for private medical school is $59,605 and the median current debt of a graduating student is $202,000. What’s more, 21 percent of doctors graduating from a private school do so with more than $300,000 of educational debt.

“A population as diverse as ours is best served by doctors from all walks of life, we believe, and aspiring physicians and surgeons should not be prevented from pursuing a career in medicine because of the prospect of overwhelming financial debt,” says Dr. Grossman.

Leaders at NYU School of Medicine also contend that addressing the challenges in medical education today requires more than just expanding the number of people being admitted to medical school, but a full retrofitting of the pipeline that trains and finances how we do that.

“Tuition-free medical education goes beyond the merit and financial scholarships, and debt cancellations that other academic centers have traditionally favored,” says Rafael Rivera, MD, MBA, associate dean for admissions and financial aid. “More importantly, it addresses both physician shortages and diversity.”

Grants, much like merit and financial aid, Dr. Rivera explains, are made only after students have chosen their career path. “That’s too late if we wish to expand the pipeline to bring forth the broadest, most talented group of students, and to give them the financial freedom to choose medicine over other careers.”

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