Despite free universities at home, Finns are paying for medical degrees abroad.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20212472
Posted by Shariful125
Despite free universities at home, Finns are paying for medical degrees abroad.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20212472
Posted by Shariful125
12 Comments
Because Finnish unis don’t train enough doctors due to intense union lobbying, so it’s very hard to get in even though there is more demand for doctors
Yeah, there’s 8 people applying for every spot here.
If you’re aspiring to be a doctor and dont have great upper secondary school grades, it’s not a dumb decision at all and i’m not sure why dont more people do this. Even a 30K (or more) euro student loan debt is quite easy to pay with the salary of a doctor.
How many of these Finns studying medicine abroad are the same as e.g. the hundreds of French people studying medicine in Romania: they just didn’t have the school grades required to enter a program in their home country?
Low effort post again
If you can finish one year earlier, maybe even 2 years, then 30.000 euro makes economic sense…..
Finally something to break the artificial limit of student doctors enforced by body run by doctors.
You can’t just walk to Finnish university, despite how “free” it is.
The doctors association is restricting the opening spots in Finland to ensure good quality students and stable income for doctors. The university hospitals don’t take as many new students because it’s tiresome to train them and costs money. Even if they would train in those hospitals the new docs don’t stay there but go after better wages.
Most finnish educated doctors are bad anyway. Almost never go into detail or in depth how a disease works so you have to try out like 10+ doctors till you find a competent one if you have achronic disease/genetic. Im probably gonna get downvoted by this by chuds just for telling the truth like usually.
And at the same time we are getting students from all over the world to fill our schools with kids “because they would be closed otherwise”.
These are people with grades and/or acceptance exam taking skills not good enough to get into the actual Finnish universities to study for a medical degree.
(Barring the rare exceptions who got into some very prestigious program/university in UK, US, etc)