Problem
Counter-productive subsidy of medical schools
Other Names:
Perverse subsidies for failure to train doctorsDisincentives to train physicians
Nature:
Medical schools in some countries receive government subsidies for training doctors. The schools have trained more doctors than are needed to serve local patients. In order to reduce the glut of doctors, the government has told the medical schools to train fewer doctors. The medical schools have claimed that they depend on the subsidies to operate, and so the government is now paying medical schools not to train doctors. Incidence:
Subsidies for not training doctors were awarded in 1997 in the USA. Broader Problems:
DisincentivesInsufficient educational incentivesCounter-productive price supports and subsidies Aggravates:
Overdependence on government subsidies Strategies:
Reducing production of specialists Subject(s):
Medicine → Medicine Transportation, Telecommunications → Railways
Commerce → Finance
Societal Problems → Failure
Societal Problems → Maltreatment
Health Care → Physicians
Education → Schools
Economics → Productivity
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
G: Very specific problems Date of last update
20.05.1999 – 00:00 CEST