Does Louisiana Have a Hard Time Keeping Docs In State?

Louisiana has a hard time keeping all college graduates in state.

More money and a better patient pool elsewhere

I know a couple that stayed and a few that didn't. The ones that stayed were 100% because of elderly/aging family and guilt.

Poor states with high percentage of the population on Medicaid isn’t a physician’s dream

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They end up doing their residency elsewhere and don’t come back.

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They see how great some other states can be and realize it can be even better when they are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year

Most LSU grads do residency in state and stay Tulane and Ochsner also stay in some numbers Ochsner more than Tulane. LA favorable for malpractice compared to other states because of the review panel and cap on damages

LSU-NO used to be known for taking Louisiana kids and a majority would stay in Louisiana. Over the past several years they have been trying to get their numbers up by marketing themselves around the country to compete with some of the other high ranking schools. When you do this you start getting more out of state applicants which they want, which also means more out of state tuition $$$. They no longer have the same loyalty to the state, it’s about the money. Many more liberal students have started coming. This was told to me by someone who works for the LSU system. It’s really sad. They know these kids are coming from out of state just to go to med school and then will leave to go back to other states to practice. They don’t care bc they are making so much $$$ from of the out of state tuition.
Last I heard, this wasn’t going on in Shreveport, just NO.

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Someone told me the other day that a lot of med students, when they graduate from medical school, don’t end up staying in Louisiana.

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Well, yea. There aren’t enough residency spots. Depending on specialty, you have no choice.

The medical industry in Louisiana is in a pretty bad state right now. There are very few large hospital systems outside of Tulane and Oschner, and the way they treat their healthcare workers is abhorrent. General care is okay but when it comes to cancer research/cancer treatment, Louisiana is pretty close to the bottom.

The doctors who manage to make it big are regular PCPs who have their own practices in wealthy areas like River Ranch where the average clientele is retired, old age, and live in $800,000+ homes. Most doctors aren’t businessman so these ones are outliers

To get into LSU med school they want you
To have ties to LA
Either HS or College