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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is medical school the only thing that subsidized in Canada?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

No, and there are extant subsidized programs that require people participating in them to work under certain conditions for a time after graduation. As long as it's disclosed clearly and in advance, I don't see anything wrong with it. So any program imposing public service on medical students after graduation couldn't ethically be applied to those now in school, but could reasonably be imposed on anyone who first enrolls after the condition is set and publicized.

[–] UnderFreyja 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

All education programs are managed the same way in Canada.

The reason this was proposed is that we have been losing a good portion of our doctors to the US.

The thing is, if you come from another country and want to study at McGill University to become a doctor, you will pay the full amount of your studies and can go back to work wherever you want.

Canadians have decided as a society that we want to lessen the burden of our citizens in regards to education in order to remove barriers for highly skilled careers (or any careers) but this is paid by our taxes. Training doctors just so they can fuck off to the US and never pay a cent of taxes here is a bad investment and is creating undue pressure in our medical system.

So yeah, I think it's fair to ask that if you use our low cost education system, you should be accountable to give back to the community before you decide to go exploit the broken system down south for personal gain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'll add that these 'asks' have been used for decades. My father had a similar ask back in the late 60's (in Saskatchewan). He could have his loans all forgiven if he signed a contract to practice social work in the province for a number of years.

Unfortunately he and my mom split up during that time and he moved to BC, so had to pay the Sask gov't back for his BSW.