SnapShots

Match results of my medical school graduating class this year:

• 10 graduates matched into Family Medicine - I’m here.

Now contrast that with some of the following:

• 9 matched into Anesthesiology - Do we need more Anesthesiologists or Family Doctors?  Do we need an almost 1:1 ratio of Anesthesiologists to Family Doctors?
• 13 matched into General Surgery - Why are we training more Surgeons than Family Doctors?
• 26 matched into Internal Medicine - Most of these are budding Cardiologists, Gastroenterologists, and Endocrinologists. When was the last time you met a General Internist that was younger than 35 and not a Hospitalist? They count Internal Medicine as “Primary Care”, but it really isn’t. 
• 11 matched into Obstetrics-Gynecology - Most of them want to do fellowships in Gynecology-Oncology.  
• 34 matched into a Surgical Specialty - We are producing 3.5 times more surgeons than family doctors.

Whatever we are doing to increase the number of Family Medicine doctors is not working.