Abstract
Physicians have been labelled at various times as being in short supply, although the current view of policymakers is that recent shortages have been confined to particular specialties and certain medically underserved locations. The primary care specialties — general practice, family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics and OB/GYN — have been singled out as being shortage specialties. Recent federal projections of physician surpluses, along with substantial reductions in federal support for medical education, have provided added impetus to a reexamination of medical school admissions criteria and their role in effectively matching medical school graduates with the medical needs of society.
Research support from the National Center for Health Services Research (NCHSR) (OASH Grant #03150) is gratefully acknowledged. I would like to thank the Center for Health Policy Research of the American Medical Association (AMA) for providing physician survey data. The views expressed here are not necessarily those of either NCHSR or the AMA.
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Hay, J.W. (1991). Physicians’ specialty choice and specialty income. In: Duru, G., Paelinck, J.H.P. (eds) Econometrics of Health Care. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2051-4_6
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