1. The Shortage of Doctors in Rural Areas
COGMEs predication confirmed GMENAC's estimate, although COGME's approximated surplus was smaller, COGME recommended capping hospital residency positions at 110 percent of the number of U.S. medical school graduates and enact new policies to ensure that 50 percent of the newly-trained physicians would enter primary care. ... This slowed the growth in the number of residents and IMGs trained at teaching hospitals. ... Even though the average income for a physician in the U.S. fell by nine percent between 1993 and 2000, newly trained primary care residents were receiving at least three job offe...
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