American Osteopathic Association leaders discuss the profession’s record growth, its training pipeline and the pressures facing practicing physicians.
|Slideshows|September 12, 2019
Survey results: How much school debt do physicians have?
Author(s)Chris Mazzolini
Many physicians are dealing with massive student loans from medical school, according to a poll of Medical Economics readers.
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A 2018 Medical Economics poll of doctors of all ages showed that 66 percent were more than $90,000 in debt upon graduating medical school, and 30 percent had more than $200,000 in debt.See the full results of the survey below.
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