Source: Forbes By John Squiers, Adam Harris and Adam Bennett — Messrs. Squiers, Harris, and Bennett are M.D. candidates in the Class of 2016 at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Our colleague recently wrote about the National Resident Matching Program (more commonly known as “the Match”), the system by which United States medical school graduates and foreign-trained physicians are[…]
Source: The Scurlock Scene This past week was Match week, which for those of you readers unfamiliar with this term, it is the means by which MD graduates get “matched” into a residency placement. For many people, Match week is the highlight of your 4 years of medical school, when you finally have a job[…]
Source: Skeptical Scalpel On Twitter a while ago, a medical student asked me how surgical program directors select new residents. Then a discussion arose among some academic surgeons on the same topic. Someone suggested that medical school grades were the best way to tell whether an applicant would be a successful resident. The fact is[…]
Source: Primary Care Progress By Anoop Raman, M.D., M.B.A. Much of the news we hear about primary care is disheartening at best, frightening at worst. Most of us have heard that there is a shortage of primary doctors, and with over seven million new patients enrolled (and counting) through Obamacare health exchanges, that shortage is going to get[…]
Source: Forbes By Amy Ho Match Magic: How One Economist Hurt Physicians and Patients Becoming a doctor takes time, but those outside of medicine do not always realize how convoluted the process can be. Central to the perversion is the National Resident Matching Program (or “the Match”). After college and the two years of[…]
Source: KevinMD By: JENNIFER MIDDLETON, MD | PHYSICIAN I believe that family medicine is the solution to American health care. I believe that family doctors give high quality, cost efficient care. Counties with the right proportion of primary care to specialty care have populations who live longer and health care that costs less. Too many specialists and not[…]