It's not just about the doctors though they are only one slice of the issue. The critical shortage we have and are failing to address is the nursing/support staff shortage. When you dont have these people the doctors have to absorb some of the load as well as spread it out to other nurses.
The other critical issue is the 1997 change that froze the number of Medicare-funded residency slots effectively capping it so the US, even with schools full cant catch up. Universities and hospitals have and continued to rely on Medicare funding for residency training, reimbursing teaching hospitals for a portion of resident stipends and associated teaching costs. These schools and hospitals can easily put forth the investment to address the cap but have refused to do so. I mean when a doc is graduating with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt the least their tuition could go to is part of that.
It's not just about the doctors though they are only one slice of the issue. The critical shortage we have and are failing to address is the nursing/support staff shortage. When you dont have these people the doctors have to absorb some of the load as well as spread it out to other nurses.
The other critical issue is the 1997 change that froze the number of Medicare-funded residency slots effectively capping it so the US, even with schools full cant catch up. Universities and hospitals have and continued to rely on Medicare funding for residency training, reimbursing teaching hospitals for a portion of resident stipends and associated teaching costs. These schools and hospitals can easily put forth the investment to address the cap but have refused to do so. I mean when a doc is graduating with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt the least their tuition could go to is part of that.