You're really missing the point. There is a huge variance in physician wages based on specialty and location, to the extent that looking at averages is mostly meaningless. We already have a growing shortage of physicians, especially primary care providers in rural areas. Asking prospective doctors to fund their own residency slots will only make that problem worse.
>shortage of physicians
>Asking prospective doctors to fund their own residency slots will only make that problem worse.
Its literally the opposite.
If you have them fund their own spots, there would be potentially unlimited spots.
The limit is caused by the boogeyman of not getting government funding, not that people can't afford the temporary debt.
There was some stat that 1 in 4 qualified people become doctors. The problem is not supply. The problem is the cartel legally reducing supply to prop up wages.