Happy Holidays to you, too.
But your original post stated:
“In contrast, med schools have space constraints. They couldn’t add 10 additional students if they wanted to. No lab space for them, without major construction.”
It’s a fact that medical schools are adding students(see the articles cited earlier). Not sure why you’re off on the residency tangent. It appears that you insist on having the last word on a topic of your choosing, while ignoring your earlier assertions. Clearly, your statement, as highlighted above, is incorrect. Are you now conceding that “space constraints” are not an issue? Changing the topic(to residency issues) in mid-discussion doesn’t make it any less incorrect. The fact is, med schools are adding additional students.
I do find it interesting that you’ve changed your position from medical schools can’t increase at all to medical schools can’t increase “much.” Good to see that recognition on your part. Also I’d note that it’s not that there aren’t residency spots-your article notes that there are 1000(!) residency spots unfilled on match day. So it isn’t that aren’t enough residency slots, it’s that every medical student doesn’t get what he or she wants-not everybody can go into derm or radiology. But everyone CAN get a residency slot; as such, by definition, there is not shortage. So your statement
“Med schools can’t increase much if there is no where for their grads to go” is incorrect-there are residency spots, just not residency spots they want to take-in fact as your article notes, there are a thousand spots available on match day.
Further, there’s a more limited argument to be made that you’re also incorrect about the cost, as new for-profit medical schools have opened over the past several years; they;re willing to make the major construction(see for example http://www.rvu.edu/).
But I"m willing to stand corrected-do you stand by your earlier statement? And if so, what is the authority for that?
And regarding the bar exam, you’re making generalizations based on a single state. California has California bar exam only schools-which are what they sound like-they are schools which aren’t ABA approved from which you can take the California bar. Period. For example, the honorable mayor couldn’t even sit for the bar in Nevada(http://www.nvbar.org/content/admission-requirements) or Oregon(http://www.nvbar.org/content/admission-requirements). .
And using that example again establishes that my initial statement was correct-the AMA does have a close hold on medical schools, while the ABA has little or no control over who can get to be an attorney(and there’s an argument to be made the ABA doesn’t really care)… There aren’t any “California only” medical schools because of the close hold of the AMA-and you should take a look at the requirements to get a medical license in California.