Washington Post: America to face a shortage of primary care physicians within a decade or so

Through recent results, records have shown that most graduates from US medical schools are not choosing to specialize in primary care positions. According to a 2019 National Resident Matching Program report, less than half of the U.S. graduates from medical schools filled the 8,116 available internal medicine positions. Even with the osteopathic and foreign-trained physicians filling these empty positions, primary care physicians is still expected to have a shortage between 21,100 and 55,200 primary care physicians by 2032.

To read the full article by Victoria Knight and published in The Washington Post, click here.