On 3/19/08, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > NY Times, March 19, 2008 > The Price of Beauty > For Top Medical Students, an Attractive Field > By NATASHA SINGER > > BOSTON — March Madness has a different meaning for Thomas Hocker and > Meena Singh, a married couple in their final year at the Harvard Medical > School, who are waiting to learn Thursday if they have been accepted > into their residency programs of choice. > > Already saddled with about $330,000 in education loans, they borrowed > $20,000 more so they could fly around the country this winter for about > two dozen residency interviews each. All told, each applied to 90 such > training programs. > > Ms. Singh, pregnant during interview season, gave birth to their second > daughter in early January. Three days later, she flew to Miami for an > interview. > > snip... > > As thousands of medical students await word this week on residency > programs, two specialties concerned with physical appearance — > dermatology and plastic surgery — are among the most competitive. > > snip...
----------------------------------- This is no different from the situation in India wrt the IT industry. There > is what I would call an internal brain drain from non-IT sectors of every > strip to the IT sector because the salaries are so different. The paradox > is that because of high compensation young engineers neither pursue > education beyond the baccalaureate nor do they become academics/researchers, > thereby undermining the very foundation on which the future of the IT and > non-IT sectors rests. > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa Professor of Indian Studies Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Porcelaenshaven 24, 3 DK-2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +45 3815 2572 Fax: +45 3815 2500 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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