'Sticker shock' associated with med school costs may discourage some applicants

“Most of the time medical students don't actually start paying back on the principal component of their student loans until after residency.”

- Canada needs more physicians to serve rural and aboriginal communities, but the prospect of medical school debts may be discouraging promising students from those regions - who might eventually return home to practise - from even applying to med school, doctors-in-training say.

A National Physician Survey, released Monday, shows that more than one-third of medical students who responded to a 2007 questionnaire expected their debt load directly related to attending medical school to exceed $80,000. Among third-and fourth-year med students who replied, 5.5 per cent expect to have debts of more than $160,000. Read more

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Won't be Sticker Shock for Developers Buying Up Community Schools but it might be for the Public as

Boards look at closing 50 schools in Ontario

DANIEL GIRARD 2008/04/23

School boards across Ontario have recommended that at least 50 schools be closed and are reviewing the viability of nearly 300 others, according to a new report...

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