Useful Education

Given the explosion of healthcare policy debates everywhere from the editorial pages to the Senate floor (not to mention medblogs), Slate.com raises a great point: why aren't medical students being required to learn more about the field they are training to enter?  Says one student quoted in article, "People I graduated with couldn't tell you the difference between Medicare and Medicaid."  Obviously the primary focus of med school remains medicine, but requiring at least a course on policy issues seems like a reasonable way to fill an important knowledge gap.