Health Care Professionals Group

If nurses become doctors, will the hospital they work at pay for medical school?

I heard that nurses who go to medical school go for free because the hospital where they work at pays for their education. Is this true? If it is, how many years do they have to work at the hospital before they can qualify to go back to school for free?

Public Comments

1. Never heard of that before. The education for physicians is very different from the education for nurses, so this would basically require the nurse to start college all over again and spend 7 or 8 years going through college and med school, plus more years for residencies, etc. Sounds like it would be a tough job for the nurse and a bad deal for the hospital. Unless someone can name a specific hospital where you can do this, I think it is just a fairy tale.
2. It's plausible that some hospitals offer tuition reimbursement to attract nurses due to the nursing shortage. But it's highly unlikely that offer would continue if the nurse ceased working and no medical institution would advocate working while attending medical school. I think you've heard somebody's naive invention.