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Report proposes greater taxpayer funding for education of health professionals.(Practice Trends)
SAN DIEGO -- A 30-year-old change in U.S. policy on the financing of medical education must be corrected to encourage more minorities to enter the health professions, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan said at the annual meeting of the National Medical Association.
A report by the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce, released last month, proposes greater taxpayer funding for the education of health professionals, said Dr. Sullivan, the commission's namesake and chairman.
"One of the mistakes I think we made as a nation was back in the early 1970s in the decision to have health professions students finance their education by going into debt," said Dr. Sullivan, president emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1989-1993).
Until that time, medical, dental, and nursing students could finance nearly all of their education through a variety of funding sources in federal, military, and private-foundation programs. "That was a deliberate federal policy that was changed" due to a shift in philosophy that questioned the need to finance the education ...
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