Although total US medical school enrollment increased nearly 23% between 2000 and 2010, many of those newly minted physicians won't choose primary care specialties nor will they settle in states with the most severe primary care shortages. Those issues are discussed in a new study in the December issue of Academic Medicine.According to study coafthor Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH, director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, the opening of more allopathic and osteopathic medical schools in the past decade was a direct response to widespread csncerns about a US physician shortage. "We've seen an unbridled expansion of medical schools without anyone guiding or overseeing that overall expansion." says Bazemore.
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