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Brazil shocked to find that 13,000 students about to graduate from medical school lack basic knowledge to practice medicine (english.elpais.com)

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[-] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 2 months ago

It’s no surprise that federal public universities have received the highest marks; they are universally recognized as the best. But the evaluation of medical programs has also revealed that tuition fees can be inversely proportional to the quality of the education being offered. Medicine schools that scored the lowest (1 or 2 on a scale of 1-5) charge each student between $1,100 and $2,600 a month, according to a detailed analysis by Veja magazine. This is veritable fortune in a country where the minimum wage is $313 a month.

How can you charge so much compared to their minimum wage and still be so bad?

[-] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Try $290 monthly minimum wage. This is Brazil not America in the article. Unless you're saying It's better ratio of wage to tuition than America, which is not hard

[-] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 9 points 2 months ago

It's about the same is what I was saying, yeah

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