Medical school is a bad choice for smart kids, or why talent sorting in Germany is flawed · Posts

PubPub uses third-party cookies to help our team and our communities understand which features and content on PubPub are receiving traffic. We don't sell this data or share it with anyone else, and we don't use third-party processors who aggregate and sell data. Visit your privacy settings to learn more. German academia doesn’t have world-class universities and is self-avowedly egalitarian. Without a clear top university, many talented students instead enter highly competitive medical schools to prove their ability. But, as argued here, medical school is a bad default choice for these students if you care about accelerated scientific, material, and moral progress. This is for four reasons: Entering many different universities instead of one top college, talented students do not generate and thus do not profit from local agglomeration effects. Medical students aren’t allowed the intellectual flexibility to explore ideas and projects independently. Medical school takes six years, offerin

PubPub uses third-party cookies to help our team and our communities understand which features and content on PubPub are receiving traffic. We don't sell this data or share it with anyone else, and we don't use third-party processors who aggregate and sell data. Visit your privacy settings to learn more. German academia doesn’t have world-class universities and is self-avowedly egalitarian. Without a clear top university, many talented students instead enter highly competitive medical schools to prove their ability. But, as argued here, medical school is a bad default choice for these students