system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If medical research papers aren't available for free, how does med schools teach their students?Does it mean that different med schools are using different study materials based on the medical papers they have access to?
gpt
The libraries at large universities will have vast collections of academic journals that they subscribe to.  Important studies will get published in the big name journals that should be available in every school.

Even in med school, you're not really going to be focused on learning about cutting edge research but building up a strong background of commonly accepted practice.  There's a big gap between the time a paper on a subject gets published to the time it gets reproduced & becomes common knowledge.