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It’s not residency slots that gate complex specialties it’s fellowship slots. At the end of residency, a “general surgeon” can do common and basic things like a
by 0xB31B1B 3y ago
It’s not residency slots that gate complex specialties it’s fellowship slots. At the end of residency, a “general surgeon” can do common and basic things like appendectomies. Those that go on to do organ transplants, complex cancer cases, etc do a fellowship that is another 1-3 years of training in a further sub field. We don’t need more internists or family med doctors, most of that caseload can be handled by NPs and PAs. Family med MDs make maybe 160k/year, they are not high earning.
- light_hue_1 3y ago> Family med MDs make maybe 160k/year, they are not high earning The mean wage is 224k/year. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291215.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291215.htm Definitely high earning. > We don’t need more internists or family med doctors, most of that caseload can be handled by NPs and PAs. Ok. When someone in your family dies from horrible substandard care from an NP, we'll talk. I don't let anyone in my family deal be under the care of an NP, I've seen them make far too many serious mistakes.
- johntiger1 3y ago> We don’t need more internists or family med doctors Pretty sure the big shortage is precisely in FM, because it's low-status and not as stimulating intellectually/too routine