Where Have All The Doctors Gone? Addressing The Physician Shortage

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Healthcare is undergoing both enormous change and positive innovation. But there is another longer-term health care stressor playing out today and looming large for the future: a critical shortage of physicians.

For years, experts in the United States have projected a physician shortage, and the pandemic certainly exacerbated existing shortages. But the outlook is even more serious today. Some of these trends are familiar, but others are new and exacerbating the situation. Addressing them requires collective action: What can we—as physicians and healthcare professionals—do about it?

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Top 10 Pieces of Advice for Getting into Residency or Advising Students on Residency Placement

Considering that thousands of our members are medical students and that so many of our members advise medical students, I decided to share my top 10 pieces of advice for getting into residency programs. Advising medical students on residency placement has been a keen academic interest of mine over the last 20 years. Having served as a residency program director for years in the past, I feel that it helps me share that perspective with future residents. I have had the honor of being an ACOI Visiting Professor at nearly every college of osteopathic medicine (COM) in the nation and advising thousands of medical students and I have been incredibly rewarded by hearing of the success stories of so many medical students.  

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ChatGPT Out-scores Medical Students on Complex Clinical Care Exam Questions

ChatGPT can outperform first- and second-year medical students in answering challenging clinical care exam questions, a new study by Stanford researchers has revealed. The findings highlight the accelerating impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on medical education and clinical practice and suggest the need for a new approach to teaching tomorrow's doctors.   

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Temporal Trends in Childhood Household Income Among Applicants and Matriculants to Medical School and the Likelihood of Acceptance by Income, 2014-2019

In 2009, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education introduced accreditation standards to increase medical student diversity. However, little is known about how socioeconomic status influences medical school applications and admissions.

We examined trends in childhood household income among applicants and matriculants to medical school and the likelihood of acceptance by income.

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Medical students aren't showing up to class. What does that mean for future docs?

Many medical students do not attend lectures in the first two years, instead opting to watch recorded classes on their own time.

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During my first two years as a medical student, I almost never went to lectures. Neither did my peers. In fact, I estimate that not even a quarter of medical students in my class consistently attended classes in person. One of my professors, Dr. Philip Gruppuso, says in his 40 years of teaching, in-person lecture attendance is the lowest he's seen.

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