As a senior in high school beginning my journey of higher education, I have started to think critically about the pathway to become an orthopedic surgeon, including the actual cost and opportunity cost with investment in time. My passion for orthopedics is based on influences from my father, research experience and clinical exposure. I come from a family in which my parents are physicians, but they had different paths to get there. My father was educated in the United States following a conventional approach, while my mother was educated in India, only coming to the United States for residency training. Application process According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), there are 157 medical schools in the United States, but with more than 60,000 applicants yearly and increasing, less than half of the applicants are accepted. The number of U.S. medical schools has slowly grown, with 29 newly accredited medical schools and 17 osteopathic school opening since 2002. In the United States, the AAMC predicts a shortage of between 54,100 and 139,000 physicians by 2033, and more than 40% of U.S. physicians will be aged 65 years or older in the next decade. According to AAMC’s report The […]
K&X Design and Investment Technology, LLC
Invest The Invisible Impact
K&X Design and Investment Technology, LLC
Invest The Invisible Impact
