--- Wojtek Sokolowski <wsokol52 at yahoo.com> wrote: BTW, the US physicians get about the same amount of actual medical schooling before they start practicing, except they are not called "doctors" but "interns." If memory serves, the Soviet-style med school had 6 years of strictly medical training plus a year or two of internship. No pre-med, no humanities, no fluff, just cutting up cadavers and pushing pills.
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Russia has retained this system pretty much unchanged.
Interestingly, there are about twice as many people enrolled in institutions of higher learning in Russia today as in 1989 (the last Soviet census). I think this is mainly because income is more tied to educational level (or at least to having a diploma) than it was in Soviet days.
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