TY  - JOUR
T1  - OVersimplifying primary care supply and shortages
AU  - Freed GL, Stockman JA
Y1  - 2009/05/13
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.619
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1920
EP  - 1922
VL  - 301
IS  - 18
N2  - 
Recent reports have warned of a crisis related to a shortage of primary care physicians.1 However, much of the current concern seems to have stemmed from articles in the medical literature specifically reporting that fewer internal medicine residents are choosing to pursue primary care and that fewer medical students are choosing family medicine residencies. Hauer et al2 found, among a national sample of fourth-year medical students, that only 22% planned careers in internal medicine and just 2% intended to practice general internal medicine. Ebell3 hypothesized that fewer medical students are choosing primary care specialties as a result of lower salaries relative to other specialties. It is important to note that the results of his trend-line analysis showed this was true only for family physicians.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.619
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.619
ER  -