Most Internists Don't Plan To Stay in Primary Care by Genevra Pittman. Reuters. December 4, 2012.
A survey by the Mayo Clinic of 17,000 internal medicine residents found that only 22 percent said that they were planning to become general internal medicine physicians. As a result the article suggests that the strategy of training more internal medicine residents in order to address the general practice physician shortage may be flawed. An alternative may be to pay current physicians in underserved areas more to work longer and see more patients. The need to revitalize and reform internal medicine and primary care as viable career options is crucial.
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