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June 23, 2016

For-profit med schools spring up in U.S.

  • For decades, for-profit medical schools were relegated to foreign shores, with companies like DeVry opening schools in the Caribbean. But that changed in 2007.
    • By REBECCA BOONE
    Associated Press

    BOISE, Idaho — For-profit medical schools are starting to pop up around the country, promising to create new family doctors for underserved rural regions.

    Rural states like Idaho need more general practitioners, with the baby boom generation aging and expanded insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act making health care more accessible. But critics of the new schools question whether companies can properly train the nation's next crop of doctors.


     
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