Hey guys, this is a bill that was recently introduced in congress to increase the number of residency spots. You can click on the link to support the bill, which will be beneficial to all of us. http://capwiz.com/aamc/home/
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If you want more hospitals hiring fewer attending physicians because they can get by and save a lot of money with the work they get out of the residents they have in their residency program, then you support having fewer jobs waiting for you when you are ready to be an attending.
Not that I think doctors will have a hard time finding jobs anytime soon, but it is a very scary trend that many professions in many different areas are relying heavily on underlings and free/cheap labor to cut corners and save money. It isn't good for the job market and in the case of medicine it isn't good for the quality of healthcare.
Then what happens when you artificially elevate the supply of physicians in certain specialties that greatly exceed demand? (ortho is already over-represented) Then you will see physicians having a harder time finding work because there is too much competition (especially with doctors working more years before retiring because compensation is shrinking and the cost of medical education keeps rising).
And what about the quality of the physicians and their training? Are there enough hospitals to train more medical students well? I know a lot of medical schools (US and otherwise) have trouble finding hospitals for their students.
I couldn't agree with you more on this one. My medical school just started a brand new Emergency Medicine residency program and (in my opinion) has no business training EM residents. In what I've seen I don't understand how the caseload at my school's ER could be stimulating even to the few ER docs we have on service at any given time, much less having a brood of residents hovering around hoping to get a good educational experience. This gets back to my original point, because (based on what I know about the people who run the ER and the hospital in general at my medical school) this is all about saving $$$, regardless of what's best for medical training at this institution. It turns out that if you are a hospital director you get a pretty sweat deal by having as many residency programs as you can get your hands on. It makes good business sense (get workers with an M.D. next to their name costing you a measly $40,000 a pop for 80 hours a week in return and you're doing pretty darn good!!!). But it doesn't make good sense for the quality of healthcare!!! DO NOT SUPPORT THIS BILL!!!
