Cost of Medical Education and Implications of Losses to the Costs During Education Process

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Training hospital costs have been strikingly increasing in recent years. Costs of training in hospitals engaged in training health care professionals have increased more than the average educational costs. Therefore, managers of health institutions try to understand the share of the cost of medical education in training hospitals. With this research, Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATF) between the years of 2005-2010the effects of the tendency of training cost and the losses during thetraining are to be defined on the cost.We observed that the unit costs per student have increased 49,7% during the scholar periods between 2005-2010 in The Gulhane Military Medical Academy. When we consider that the other factors are fixed, we can display that one of the most important reasons for this increase is that the ratio of negative capacity variance, which was about 10% in 2005, went up to 39,78% in 2010. In addition, we identified that in scholar year of 2009-2010, failure of contestants for graduation, grade repetition and dropping out of school for any reason have increased the costs for 1.9 times more for this scholarly year.

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Medical Education , Cost , Student Flow Model

Gulhane Medical Journal

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Gulhane Medical Journal