Healthcare educational debt in the united states: unequal economic impact within interprofessional team members.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advancing healthcare access and quality for underserved populations requires a diverse, culturally competent interprofessional workforce. However, high educational debt may influence career choice of healthcare professionals. In the United States, health professions lack insight into the maximum educational debt that can be supported by current entry-level salaries. The purpose of this interprofessional economic analysis was to examine whether average educational debt for US healthcare graduates is supportable by entry-level salaries. Additionally, the study explored whether trainees from minoritized backgrounds graduate with more educational debt than their peers in physical therapy.

Methods

The study modeled maximum educational debt service ratios for 12 healthc

SUBMITTER: Shields RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10503048 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature