The recent National Registration Examination results are an indictment of the standards of many foreign medical schools, which seem to spend most of their budgets on ads to attract more students, rather than on educating them. Only about 20% of foreign-trained medical and dental graduates passed the exam this year, exposing a crisis that endangers public health and preys on aspirational families.

This abysmal pass rate, 21% for medicine and a shocking 7% for dentistry in the latest session, is not an........

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