Medical Education and the Loss of Productive Years: Part 1, Highlight of the Problem

The core objective of the current article is to highlight some time related issues of medical education. In the last few decades, a significant high trend for studying medical education has been observed. In many countries, a significant surplus pool of doctors are waiting for residency, practice and beginning of their profession. Hence, there are more doctors than the requirements. Some professional studies are getting fewer students, leading to a mismatch of supply and demand; this require increasing government and private sectors’ spending. The students also suffer as they lose their precious time and they could not start a professional life as early as possible. After doing 20 to 30 years of study, there is not much time for doing other things.