Ah, the American approach

Trust fund babies. Just like here.

Students that are paying a fortune can expect and demand high grades for little work, they’re paying extra for the “deluxe” degree where all the hard stuff is done for them. It’s really common with for-profit universities.

I mean... American minimum wage comes out to $1256 monthly (assuming full-time, and that's pre-tax). Community college comes in pretty cheap at $450 a month on average, but four year universities come up to $4,800 on average (assuming full-time enrollment for both). The cheapest MD programs I can find are still close to twice the minimum wage, and that's assuming you get in-state tuition, since out of state is usually 2-3x more.

kinda like carribean ones, and likely wont be eligble for praticing medicine in the states, because they have much more stringent requirements, which tend to ignore "diploma-mill like medical schools". if you're a foreign trained"MD that is not from the UK, aus, EU , canada" you will have a extremely hard time to pratice in the states or in any of those countries.

I've found in higher education that many programs that act as diploma mills charge a lot because they can. They know the students are just looking for the degree and that the school is probably their only choice.

fun fact the minimum wage is yearly readjusted and based on the cost of common basic items

how is it so bad? I have no fucking clue, we have chronic critical shortage of medics since as far as I can remember

It's mostly private institutions passing people because they just care about the money and nothing else.

Corruuuuuption!

Americans, pay attention, because this is where you're headed in speed run fashion

They... Are? Seems like a lot of people responding aren't reading the article, so:

• Brazil is huge, and has the largest public healthcare system in the world.
• This is the first time they've conducted a national test against medical universities
• They are not punishing students, but the universities, and restricting new enrollment at them

And no, they are not all private institutions.

Yeah that's what I've been saving for at least a decade. Every company I worked for has feature creep in what you are expected to be an expert in and at a certain point you don't actually know anything you're just vaguely aware of a lot of different things.

Framed differently, it could mean the new exam is a poor indicator of readiness to practice medicine.

depends,

in Brazil, public universities are mostly attended by the rich for free

paid ones are usually also mostly attenddd by the rich though on average less rich

the reason? even though there extremely generous inclusion programs and quotas for poor and students that studied in public education system their whole lives the public universities are very competitive and hard to get into and since the basic public school system is utter garbage any student from private schools is at a huge advantage