re: Why are there not more medical schools or higher acceptant rates?

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From what I hear, there's also a shortage of GPs in Louisiana. They are actually considering building a medical school in Lafayette that trains GPs.

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Being scrutinous and probably missing your point, but it won't train GPs, nor is really any state "missing" GPs. A GP is a doctor who has completed medical school and one year of training, usually with a "mixed bag" approach where they see a little of everything, and then practices with an unrestricted license. They're not eligible to sit for any boards, they're not really "in style" at all any more. The new school, if it ever happens- and at a "Town Hall Meeting" the school had back in Dec it was mentioned as being in the works- it will focus on providing Primary Care Physicians, otherwise known as Internal Medicine (3 years), Pediatrics (3), Family Medicine (3), Medicine-Pediatrics (4). I do not know whether they consider the field of OB/GYN (4) to be primary care or not when it comes to this school. In any matter, physicians who complete programs in these fields are eligible for board certification through their respective governing bodies (including both ABIM and AAP for the Med-Peds folks). It's a subtle difference, and I may have missed the spirit of your post, but it's a fairly important distinction for anyone who would be deciding to go into that program.

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tried making a dermatologist appointment in lafayette once and had To wait over a month

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Lafayette has a shortage of dermatologists


as for the boards, and idk, but I thought that if you graduate med school then you are a Doctor. You go on to residency, and can practice medicine- not specialize. You can definitely go overseas to practice in some countries. You're not board certified, but you can do general stuff like open a weight loss clinic or stuff like that and claim it's run by a physician.

Do you really want to make it easier for people to become something talent diagnoses and treats your health conditions?