Four years ago, NYU’s School of Medicine ended tuition for its students and that class just graduated. Check out the image above to see how many went into primary care. Can’t find it? Yeah, me neither. I think it is under Medicine Primary? They can’t even say our specialty name right. Look at how pathetic that number is. And you know damn well the 17% that went into internal medicine are still going to be specialists.
It doesn’t help that NYU has no family medicine department. How is this still possible in 2022?
The ONLY hope for primary care is DIRECT PRIMARY CARE. That is it. End of story. We are now seeing some specialists catch a clue and do Direct Specialty Care but it isn’t as smooth and successful as DPC. Do I feel bad? Yes and no. I don’t want any physician to suffer except maybe these spoiled NYU graduates mentioned in the article who chose to still go for the money!!!
Too much? I apologize. I need to drink more coffee before I write these opinion pieces.
But how the f$ck are we supposed to fix the primary care shortage when making medical school free doesn’t work? The answer: promote DPC. Will it happen? No, because no governing body (AMA, ACP, AAFP) will do it. The only way is for us to promote ourselves.