Big problem. But speaking to the Australian experience: Between 2000-2010 we went from producing 1500 new doctors to 3000. We have a different training pathwa

Big problem. But speaking to the Australian experience: Between 2000-2010 we went from producing 1500 new doctors to 3000. We have a different training pathway to the US (and there are many criticisms of both) but you have to complete at least one, usually 2, generally 3-4 years of generalist or semi-generalist Training before entering your chosen speciality. This results in a much older age of graduate. However it also results in people entering the speciality that they desire. On the other upside, we exit with little Med school debt (most Americans I met left with 250-300k in debt) The persistent bottleneck is with medical education and training. You can not, in the course of a handful of years, massively increase the number of trainees for speciality isotopes without adequately upskilling sown the line and making sure people have jobs to go into and that the existing power structures are there to facilitate integration and adequate skill set/not be overly disenfranchised by their own hold on things that they don’t let go. Capability is evenly distributed, opportunity is not. We must all work to improve on this