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Financial Aid in the News

Ohio: Cleveland Clinic's Medical School To Offer Tuition-Free Education (The Wall Street Journal)

"The medical school run by the Cleveland Clinic will offer a tuition-free education, in the hope that a substantial reduction of post-graduation debt will encourage top students to enter academic medicine," The Wall Street Journal reports. "The medical profession has worried for years about how the high cost of a medical education -- newly minted doctors owe nearly $140,000 on average -- influences students' career choices. One-third of medical students surveyed by the nonprofit Association of American Medical Colleges say debt influences their choice of specialization."

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