Saturday, December 1, 2007

RBRVS-For Primary Care No Good Work Goes Unpunished

The results are in - Medical Residents are not choosing to enter the Generalist fields of medicine in the United States. With current trends, less than 10% of those training in Internal Medicine will work as general internists. Compare this with JAMAs report that all European countries have a broad Generalist foundation comprising 70-80% of practicing physicians. The consequences of our