{"id":16772,"date":"2019-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/new-kaiser-permanente-medical-school-plans-to-waive-tuition\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:09:03","slug":"new-kaiser-permanente-medical-school-plans-to-waive-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/new-kaiser-permanente-medical-school-plans-to-waive-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"New Kaiser Permanente Medical School Plans to Waive Tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>School will waive all tuition for the full four years of school for its first five classes<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A new medical school to be opened by California-based health system Kaiser Permanente will waive tuition for all students in its first five graduating classes.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to make it easier for people with lower incomes to go to medical school and to keep students from bypassing lower-paid specialties like family medicine because they are burdened with high levels of debt, <i>The New York Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even middle-class families are finding medical school hard to pay for,&#8221; said Mark Schuster, the founding dean and chief executive of the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to see how this plays out and learn from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser&#8217;s new medical school will be one of only a few in the United States not connected to a university. Kaiser has its own hospitals, clinics, doctors, and insurance plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/19\/health\/kaiser-medical-school-free-.html\" target=\"_new\"><i>The New York Times<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/share.kaiserpermanente.org\/article\/kaiser-permanente-school-of-medicine-to-open-summer-2020-committed-to-physician-diversity\/\" target=\"_new\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School will waive all tuition for the full four years of school for its first five classes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-16772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}