My wife is applying for family medicine residency right now. There are 20 slots for the entire Bay Area. 6 at UCSF, 6 at Kaiser San Jose, and 8 at Stanford. F

My wife is applying for family medicine residency right now. There are 20 slots for the entire Bay Area. 6 at UCSF, 6 at Kaiser San Jose, and 8 at Stanford. Family medicine isn't neurosurgery or radiology but the artificial limitations on residencies still lead to hyper competition, long hours, and an insane "match day". When graduating med school it doesn't look that much harder to push a bit more for a specialty and get paid twice as much. And now we have too many specialists in the United States. It seems like we could solve this pretty easily by simply increasing the number of residency slots for GPs.