Are medical students too liberal?

Well, certainly that explains the appeal of a group like AMSA. This poster suggests their views change during residency:

Academic physicians are more liberal than community physicians as a generality. Also, medical students are far more liberal than physicians. There is something about 80 hour weeks with minimal reimbursement tends to change some minds about unlimited self-sacrifice to humanity. Half of your liberal classmates won’t be by the time they start practicing.