re: Keeping La-trained doctors in the state for residency proves to be a challenge on MatchDay

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You do realize this is just residency and most want to return to LA after that?

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i really, really doubt that.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I plan on returning to LA after residency if I do it out of state. I want to go to the best program to make me the best doctor. I know LA has it's flaws, but it's my home and people here need healthcare.

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You do realize this is just residency and most want to return to LA after that? Most like the idea of moving away for 3-5 years for some things new and then returning to work

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Link?

I don't want to go back. LA is fricked.

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You don't count as "most." I've got friends who did exactly what he was referring to. Residency at Birmingham, MUSC, St. Louis, NYC then back to LA.

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Likewise, your friends do not count as "most." Statistics show that residents are more likely to stay in the area where they do their residencies than they are to return home.

I find that to be completely false.

I guess it depends what you mean by area. If you mean city, then I think your wrong

If you mean state or region, then maybe

article misses the mark

I matched out of state because there were many more and better spots. La is a small pond when it comes to medical education.

I never returned because the job I have here is twice as good as any I could have gotten in La.

"healthcare budget on the chopping block" really has nothing to do with it

They have been lamenting this same thing every match day for 20 years. Except for rural areas, like in almost every state, there are doctors available.

Most I know who leave the state do so not because they want to, but because there are either:
A. No jobs here that want to hire them right out of school
B. The jobs here pay 30-50% less than the same job one state over in Texas.

If they want more graduates to stay here, they need to only offer them the job at a salary remotely comperable to other places.

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Because the cost of living in Louisiana is so much more

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You mean the mental cost of having to live amongst fat trashy white people and ghetto arse black people in a state where if you don't just love fishing there isn't much to do?

I could be waaay off base but here goes :
After attending medical school in Louisiana wouldn't doing a residency away from LA give you a different perspective on your specialty. It seems to me that getting doctors back to LA after their residency should be where the emphasis should be placed.
But I do see where the possibility exists that a doctor could tent to practice where they did their residency.
Interested to see what others have to say .