[jewelcutt]

Cost of education is the cost that the hospital pays not what you pay. SRNAs don't get paid, in fact they pay to learn. MDA residents get paid, in addition to all of their food and some get help with housing, in addition to the cost of training them.

[TexasGas]

Originally Posted by Nitecap

One thing I do question is the statement of educating 10 CRNA's for one MD. My total of CRNA school will be about 120-130K. I really dont think it takes 1.2 million to educate 1 anesthesiologists.

You may have debt of $120-130k, but surely your program didn't cost a total much more than $50k.

On top of that, medical school and residency costs some public monies that are not allocated to nursing education. Medical residents are generally paid while training. With the exception of a few locations, most hospitals do not offer even stipends for the work performed by the RRNA. In some instances, the students are being required to pay the hospital fees that cannot be collected from Medicare mediaries for central line and art lin placement. Medicare reimburses CRNA line placement and physicians and medical residents. But they do not generally reimburse RRNAs, so the students must pay from their own pocket for their training. These are calculated into the cost afforded. And don't mistake how much of the anesthesiaologist education may be subsidized by public funds. Very rarely does such an avenue for eductaion payment exist for CRNA training. It is done almost soley by private pay by students.

[MikeyJ]

A lot of you are making ridiculous invalid points. You are comparing apples to oranges. Before responding perhaps you should go take an economics class and get an idea of how our healthcare system works.

[MikeyJ]

Originally Posted by jewelcutt

Cost of education is the cost that the hospital pays not what you pay. SRNAs don't get paid, in fact they pay to learn. MDA residents get paid, in addition to all of their food and some get help with housing, in addition to the cost of training them.

Did you stop to compare the two training systems for MDA's and CRNA's? A CRNA gets their BSN and then works in a hospital while being paid very good money for approx. 2 years. They then enroll in CRNA school between 2 and 3 years while they are training to become a CRNA. Yes, they are not paid but instead are paying to be there.

An MD goes to undergrad for 4 years, then to med school for 4 more years. During those 8 years they are not working, or if they are it is very minimal work. Granted, they then embark on their residency where they do 3 years of training where they are worked to the bone with very little pay. As long as they choose not to pursue a fellowship, they are then able to practice as an anesthesiologist. Now your statement regarding how SRNA's pay to learn and MDA's are being paid to learn is a mockery because you forgot to stop and compare the two.

[jewelcutt]

My statement is not a mockery, it wasn't meant to insult. I was basically clarifying for an above poster about the cost of training a resident versus srna for the hospital alone. Nothing at all to do with the amount of debt a person ends up in, rather how much the hospital pays. I didn't think residents got "paid very little", I've talked to many that make the same amount as nurses.

[NRSKarenRN]

Many rude, flaming posts have been made to this thread that upon review, due not meet TOS posting guidelines. Since members can not seem to have a debate on this subject without name calling, this thread is now closed.