Inside the decision by NYU School of Medicine to go tuition free

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[phyllissandy]

Wow!! Amazing ... I do pray that when these and future students become doctors they remember to pass the good deed on to those who can't afford to pay their bill.

[dbyd]

My dad and my little brother are both MDs. This is the most promising news I have seen in the medical field in decades. This is the harbinger of a turning point....the reach at hand of critical mass on how the health care industry will evolve into. THANK YOU Leslie for this incredible article!!!

[amyazaire]

This is amazing! There are good people in the world 💕 Student depth gives you anxiety. Well done, thank you NYU and 60 minutes for sharing this inspirational story.

[Flaubert]

In Austria we pay 400 Euro per semester. I cannot imagine what it feels like to have this debt.

[PresidentialWinner]

This could be your future America, this is already a reality in many countries like mine (Finland)

[davidellis]

I'm on my way to the big 🍎 ! Amazing gesture.

[litheran]

Show me where a trade school gave free tuition to working class people who will max out at $60, 000 in salary and I'd be impressed; even if it only costs $4, 000. Giving free college to people who will clear $150, 000 a year; many of whom are there due to coming from a privileged family. For the 15% who started from the bottom it's a godsend; to the rest it's the same as daddy's checkbook.

[Km-cjej]

My daughter wants to be a doctor and I feel like a failure as a mother because I can’t afford her tuition .she’s smart and gets good grades too.

[cindycampbell]

This is a sensational headline and not completely truthful. If you listen to the entire piece, there is a segment where the president of the medical school qualifies the free tuition as being for those who go into primary care medicine or who practice in a rural or depressed area.

[johnnesmith]

In one of the adds about this event..
They wrote that they where not going make them pay back their loan with interest;
if the went into a specialty like orthopedics or genecology;


I think that is horrible what good is a doctor if,
He can not take out or bullet or do transplants.
What good is medicine if you can not isolate patients from society.
What is medicine good for outside of an organized society.

A broad range of surgical biological and tool manufacturing and,
, Use skills are required too function as a medical doctor.



The earliest medical societies organized their populations clothing and,
Medicine based on the observation of inherited features.
Medical societies and their families in themselves
Where required too be segregated from society and,
Reunified through their work and controlsbehavior




















eciding what specialty on will succeed in the most.

[bdalton]

It is a tuition free medical university now. However, students can still choose the high paying specialties (surgery, dermatology, etc) or the lower paying such as family medicine, but if having chosen the higher, they will have to pay back the tuition/loan with interest if they decide that's the route they want to take.

[utecastronoova]

This isnt new its been reoorted since last August. Why bring it up now?

[oluwasolaadu]

can someone tell me how to apply please 🙏 for undergraduate