It is becoming increasingly more difficult for graduating college students to find a job, even for students who have received a PHD. In the US, medial training requires four years of medical school followed by three to six years of residency training. Graduating medical students find out which residency program they will be placed in on Match Day. This years Match Day is today, March 16. The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) is responsible for the matching of each applicant. Each student makes a list of which program they would like to be placed in order of desirability. Unfortunately not all graduating medical students get matched. “Last year 971 graduates of the U.S. medical schools were shut out, accounting for 5.9% of U.S. grads.” Graduates of international medical schools were even worse, less than 50% obtained a residency. That means that there were more than 7,000 doctors who were left with a diploma that said “M.D.” but no guarantee they would be able to use it.
This is exactly like what we have been talking about in class. Jobs are becoming harder and harder to find even with a higher education. Having a bachelors degree is becoming less valuable with the large amount of competition fighting for jobs. To make it worse, it will most likely only get worse in the near future. It is distressing to me to learn that even people who have completed medical school are getting denied jobs. As I do not see myself attending medical school, this article makes me consider at least going to graduate school to get a master’s degree in my field. I think it is a social problem that so many people who have spent a lot of time and money on school are unable to find a job when they are done. It is important for our society to fix this problem, even if that means that more jobs have to be created.
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