Long-term trends in international medical electives fees: a database mining study
Kai Beckschulte,
Ann-Kathrin Lederer,
Maximilian Andreas Storz
Abstract:Background
Abroad medical electives are recognized as high-impact practice and considered a necessity to provide global health training. As of recently, the COVID-19 pandemic and its related travel restrictions prohibited most international elective activities. Another important barrier to abroad electives that received comparably little attention is elective and application fees, which – combined – may be as high as $5000 per month, and may prevent students with limited financial resources fro… Show more
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