One very big concern for medical schools in the US and being watched carefully. Right now to the south in Southern California we have Mexico also building hospitals to lure tourist and MDs and health plans starting to encourage patients to look at these alternatives. There are also nurses looking at being trained in Mexico.
In California there’s another plan in the works…a college in Guadalajara, Mexico 
apparently the first attempt by any state to outsource nursing education to another country. The question is will our education process start moving out of the country at some point in time and will cost drive more students outside the US?
Many universities are getting more competitive with the cost of an education as well with new programs, etc. but it appears the pressure is on and Clinical Rotations add a bit more pressure to the scenario. BD
Come September, Nassau University Medical Center will open its doors to 64 students from a Caribbean medical school for clinical training, a routine event except for one thing: Money. Lots of it. Over the next decade, NUMC will be paid $19 million to train medical students from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in a deal that also will fund hiring more staff and renovations to the hospital's medical library and amphitheater/auditorium. The contract is the latest - and one of the most lucrative - examples of a trend that has U.S. educators on edge: offshore medical schools shelling out big bucks to hospitals for exclusive rights to clinical rotations that have, historically, cost nothing or relatively little
Offshore med schools paying hospitals for rotations -- Newsday.com
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