Are quotas the answer to the primary care shortage?

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The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) believes that plans to require a large number of medical students to become primary care physicians may hurt medical schools if not implemented carefully. At its annual meeting, the AAMC offered several alternate suggestions for fostering more generalists, such as creating primary care programs in every medical school. Other ideas include targeting potential primary care doctors in the admissions process, improving research opportunities for primary care and requiring extended family practice clinical experience in medical school.

Colleges and universities, Management, Social policy, Graduate medical education, Association of American Medical Colleges

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Internists still considering ways to boost generalism

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The Federated Council of Internal Medicine is evaluating ways to increase the number of general physicians. Currently, 58% of internists are generalists, but only 40% of internal medical residents plan to be generalists. One proposal would eliminate 600 internal medicine fellowship positions per year for seven years and use the money to create 200 slots in residency programs for generalists. Another idea under consideration is to increase the training period for internal medicine fellowships from two or three to five years to discourage interest.

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Primary care shortage? It's all in eye of beholder

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Health care authorities disagree on whether to predict a shortage of physicians who specialize in primary care, which includes family medicine, general internal medicine and general pediatrics. Forecasts by the AMA and the federal Bureau of Health Professions show an oversupply of primary care physicians by the year 2000. However, the Assn of American Medical Colleges reports that fewer medical school graduates are choosing to specialize in primary care.

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