{"id":6259,"date":"2015-10-28T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T14:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/10\/28\/bussemaker-artsen-kunnen-hoge-studieschuld-best-terugbetalen\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:21","slug":"bussemaker-artsen-kunnen-hoge-studieschuld-best-terugbetalen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/10\/28\/bussemaker-artsen-kunnen-hoge-studieschuld-best-terugbetalen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bussemaker: No reason why doctors can\u2019t pay back their substantial student loan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday, medical students protesting the new loan system offered the House of Representatives a petition with 22,000 signatures. The students believe they are disproportionately affected by the new loan system. Since they spend 55 hours per week in clinical rotation during their three-year master\u2019s phase, medical students don\u2019t have time for a job on the side. They risk running up a huge debt as a result. Students who are less well-off may be afraid to enter into that level of debt, particularly since today\u2019s junior doctors are finding it harder to secure work than in the past.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Minister Bussemaker takes a different view. While she acknowledges that medical interns don\u2019t have much time for a part-time job, according to the Minister, students will receive better education thanks to the introduction of the study advance. Most of the costs of the expensive medical degree programme are still covered by the State, and students who follow up their degree with training to become a GP or medical specialist receive a salary.<\/p>\n

And Bussemaker is hardly worried about physicians\u2019 prospects in the employment market: \u201cThese students amply recoup the extra investment they have made into their education later on.\u201d And if this does not happen for whatever reason, their loan debt will eventually be cancelled just like any other student\u2019s would.<\/p>\n\n\t

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