Reimbursement to Blame for Primary Care Shortage

This is an interesting article from The Baltimore Sun stating low reimbursement for primary care physicians is the result of the shortage and medical schools are not to blame.

When physicians enter into medical school and residency training, additional fellowship training to become a specialist is tempting because of the dramatic increase in remuneration. Also taking in to consideration how much debt many students are in after completing their training makes a higher paid position seem worth the extra few years of training.

Some medical schools are trying to attract primary care physicians to their programs to contribute to the shortage of primary care physicians. According to the article Johns Hopkins offers many different financial aid packages to primary care students.

Whatever the cause of the physician shortage, the scarcity is a huge concern currently as well as the dramatic change the medical industry may experience with healthcare reform.

Read the full article in The Baltimore Sun, or click here:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/hancock/blog/2010/06/blame_reimbursement_not_school.html