Saturday, June 24, 2023

High Cost of Medical Education and Training



Video examples of the actual cost of med school

When you see the video and the extreme high cost of medical school and training from the students perspective - it is shocking.

There are lots of reports about the costs of medical training from the perspectives of the governments and universities. Lots of shocks in this report.


Overview of the Cost of Training Health Professionals (2007)

The cost of training medical and other health professionals in Canada is estimated in a 2007 

Funding awarded by the provinces to universities for the training of one medical student for one year ranges between $45,000 and $73,500.13

• Funding awarded by the provinces to train one nurse for one year of a university program ranges from $12,500 to $19,100.

• Funding awarded by the provinces to train one nurse for one year of a college diploma ranges from $9,200 to $14,000.

Association of Canadian Medical Colleges (ACMC) figures: cost of training per medical student per year (2002): $65,000 over a four-year program (2002): $260,000

Canadian Nursing Association (CNA) figures: Cost of training per nursing student per year (2002): $7,700 over a four-year program (2002): $30,000

A 2022 article about Medical school costs by Dr. Kevin Jubbal 

First-year medical students in 2000 paid around $17,000 per year in tuition. When adjusted for inflation, this comes out to about $26,000 per year. 

A first-year medical student starting in 2022 will pay around $55,000 per year in tuition. This is more than double what you would have paid just 20 years ago.

Operating a medical school costs can be broken down into two main categories: instructional costs and educational resources.

Instructional costs range from around $48,000 to $51,000 per student per year and the cost of educational resources ranges from approximately $80,000 to $105,000 per student per year. 

Combined, this is significantly higher than the tuition that most medical students pay each year. Medical schools receive income primarily from four sources: tuition, endowments, government funds, and medical services.

What I learned: In reality the schools charge students from 25 to 40% of the real cost of their medical training and they lose money.

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Egale Canada Has Filed Motion to REMOVE FOX NEWS From Canadian Airways

April 4, 2023 - To Vicky Eatrides, Chairperson and CEO of the CRTC:  

Last week, Egale Canada and a prominent Canadian leader for trans rights and inclusion were featured on the infamously incendiary Tucker Carlson Tonight program on the American Fox News Channel. The coverage aimed to provoke hatred and violence against 2SLGBTQI communities, particularly those who are Two Spirit, trans, nonbinary and gender non-conforming (2STNBGN).  

This programming is in clear violation of Canadian broadcasting standards and has no place on Canadian broadcasting networks. Carlson made false and horrifying claims about 2STNBGN people, painting them as violent and dangerous. During the segment, Carlson made the inflammatory and false claim that trans people are “targeting” Christians. To position trans people in existential opposition to Christianity is an incitement of violence against trans people that is plain to any viewer. The segment also contained a range of other malicious misinformation about 2STNBGN people, including that trans people are given preferential treatment in employment and other opportunities. This is clearly an attempt to stoke resentment against 2STNBGN people......

Update to the Open Letter

The CRTC opened a Part 1 Application (2023-0210-8 – Egale Canada) for the removal of Fox News from the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution. Interested parties and the public can submit their comments through the CRTC’s website until June 2, 2023.

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/contact/#complaint

Some of the videos about the complaints:







What I learned - Fox abuses the freedoms available in Canada and the USA - they are mostly opinion shows which should be labeled and fact checked - all hate should be banned. 

Labels on cigarette packages show what damages can be done using the product and gives fair warning to users.

labels for all the broadcast opinion shows about possible misinformation and emotional triggers and deceitful conspiracies and foreign interference and propaganda would help show the damages of watching these types of shows and gives fair warning to users.

Monday, June 19, 2023

Why More And More USA Colleges Are Closing Down


According to a CNBC analysis of data from Higher Ed Dive, since 2016 there are 91 U.S. private colleges that have either closed, merged with another school, or announced plans to close. This trend is affecting tens of thousands of college students across the USA. 

Watch the video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBENl0GVxzA

CNBC quoted several sources that 95% of small colleges rely on tuition dollars and the number of registered students is declining.forcing many colleges to close or merge.

Higher ED Dive has several articles about declining college registrations.

8 big questions as colleges start fall 2022

https://www.highereddive.com/news/8-big-questions-as-colleges-start-fall-2022/631100/

College leaders are particularly focused on the K-12 to higher ed pipeline because of recent enrollment losses.

Higher ed institutions enrolled about 1 million fewer undergraduates last fall than they did two years prior, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found. Enrollment slipped 3.1% from fall 2020 to fall 2021, and the news wasn’t much better in the spring, when undergraduate enrollment fell 4.7% year over year.

“It’s important to recognize there are hundreds of colleges out there struggling to make their classes, and it’s not going to get any easier,” said Angel PĂ©rez, CEO of NACAC.

7 higher education trends to watch in 2022

https://www.highereddive.com/news/7-higher-education-trends-to-watch-in-2022/616542/

Efforts to reverse slumping enrollment - With grim enrollment numbers over the last two years, many colleges outside of competitive private institutions and big-name public schools are looking to fill seats. Drawing students back to college will challenge many institutions. The country’s economic wounds aren’t healed, and two-year schools and some four-year access institutions will see fewer students who can afford college.

7 higher education trends to watch in 2023

https://www.highereddive.com/news/7-higher-education-trends-to-watch-in-2023/639131/

More college consolidations on the horizon - No new federal aid appears to be coming down the pipeline. Some institutions had already turned to austerity measures, as the pool of traditional-age college students starts to run dry.

Enrollment woes Continue - Enrollment fell by 1.1% in fall 2022 from the prior year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.


What did I learn - Value for money is still important - most students pay 25,000 to 50,000 per year plus lose 25,000 to 40,000 per year in wages - so the payback required can be 200,000 to 360,000 - and many can not recover this education investment as the employers do not value the education and skills of the college grads. 

Sunday, June 18, 2023

Learning English has ruined my OLD Life

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePpYU575Z48


Siming said "For me, it definitely made my life better and worse - and it's certainly not an understatement to say: learning English has ruined my life. Find out why in this video. :)"

Siming quotes from history's most famous teachers and thinkers - her learning  path is both inward and outward.

Sometimes when the student is ready, willing and able - the education is available and takes root.

Siming has placed her videos into four playlists.


Siming has a blog here:

Who am I?

My name is Siming. I run this blog to practice the craft. I believe writing is the best form of self-medication. Currently I am turning my writing into Youtube videos. For more about me, please click here.

Quotes & Commentary

From 2018, I started to write commentary about the quotes I like, briefly explaining what I think they mean, why I like them, and why I believe they are valuable. These can be passages that are particularly pungent, sentences with a memorable turn of phrase, or insights that, for whatever reason, resonated with me.

What I learned - We all have information gaps - we do not know what we do not know - education can be liberating as we can look back and see when we were trapped or restricted by deliberate actions.