This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (2)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Related article  • Similar articles in JAMA  Topic Collections  • Medical Practice  • Health Policy  • Medical Practice, Other  • Patient-Physician Relationship/ Care  • Patient-Physician Relationship, Other  • Pediatrics  • Pediatrics, Other  • Primary Care/ Family Medicine  • Alert me on articles by topic  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Gary L. Freed, MD, MPH; James A. Stockman, MD

JAMA. 2009;301(18):1920-1922.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

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.

There has not been an appreciable change in the proportion of pediatric residents who choose primary care . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliations: Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor (Dr Freed); Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Unit, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Dr Freed); Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Dr Freed); and American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Dr Stockman).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

RELATED ARTICLE

Commitment to Care for the Community
Catherine D. DeAngelis
JAMA. 2009;301(18):1929-1930.
EXTRACT | FULL TEXT  

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Pediatricians must be included in workforce discussions
Pletcher
AAP News 2009;30:22-22.
FULL TEXT  

Easing the Shortage in Adult Primary Care -- Is It All about Money?
Steinbrook
NEJM 2009;360:2696-2699.
FULL TEXT  

Commitment to Care for the Community
DeAngelis
JAMA 2009;301:1929-1930.
FULL TEXT