Posted: May 08, 2012 10:34 pm
Loren Michael wrote:
The US has a dearth of GPs, and that situation is only going to get worse. The reason pretty clearly involves financial incentives.
I am hopeful that this will start improving. The AMA was publicly supporting limiting the number of new enrollees for a long time worrying we would have an over supply.
You can see that in Chart 3 there were fewer Med school enrollees being accepted in 2002-03 than in 1982 despite having 70 million more who now needed care.
https://www.aamc.org/download/153708/da ... to2012.pdf
They have reversed this policy recently, but it will take a while for it to ease the shortage.