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re: Primary healthcare services crisis - how does Obamacare address it?
Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:52 am to dewster
Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:52 am to dewster
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but I'm trying to find the stat for foreign medical graduates.
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DOs comprised 4.9% and IMGs 22.2% of the total clinically active workforce. However, they contributed 10.4% and 19.3%, respectively, to the rural PCP workforce,
IMG's = Foreign grads
Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:53 am to MSMHater
quote:Yep..see it now. I was reading that as internal medical grads, which I figured was a typical DO or MD specializing in internal medicine. Thanks for the correction.
IMG's = Foreign grads
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My wife works at a Level 1 Trauma Center staffed with allopathic and osteopathic physicians from all over the country.....and one or two allopathic physicians they have are from Caribbean schools. I didn't know there were so many of them.
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DOs comprised 4.9% and IMGs 22.2% of the total
clinically active workforce. However, they contributed 10.4% and
19.3%, respectively, to the rural PCP workforce, although their relative
representation varied geographically. DO PCPs were more
likely than allopathic PCPs to practice in rural places (20.5% versus
14.9%, respectively). IMG PCPs were more likely than other
PCPs to practice in rural persistent poverty locations
Not that there is anything wrong with IMG, but I had no idea that there were so many of them.
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Correct
I'm shocked that we'd go through this entire ACA ordeal with a claimed effort to "fix" our "broken" medical system, but not do a damn thing about increasing medical school enrollment or incentivizing primary care specialties in any way, shape, or form.
I don't know how anyone would honestly categorize Obamacare as health care reform.
This post was edited on 11/17/14 at 11:05 am
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