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At first, many celebrate the 52 percent of first-year medical students being women as a step forward but new numbers show that there could be a massive shortage of medical care due to this.
It's one thing that women are the majority of medical school students, but many will marry in their same socio-economic class and many will end up working part-time.
31 percent of women doctors with children work part-time compared to 5% of men
In a study though, 64 percent of women medical doctors have considered moving to part-time status which is triple the rate of males.
Seems like this will add to the perfect storm of baby boomers increasing health needs, the skyrocketing obesity rates that will cause tens of millions of adults into chronic conditions, plus doctors would likely earn a fraction of what they make now because Medicare has extremely low reimbursement rates compared to commercial insurance which subsidizing Medicare's low rates.
At first, many celebrate the 52 percent of first-year medical students being women as a step forward but new numbers show that there could be a massive shortage of medical care due to this.
It's one thing that women are the majority of medical school students, but many will marry in their same socio-economic class and many will end up working part-time.
31 percent of women doctors with children work part-time compared to 5% of men
In a study though, 64 percent of women medical doctors have considered moving to part-time status which is triple the rate of males.
Seems like this will add to the perfect storm of baby boomers increasing health needs, the skyrocketing obesity rates that will cause tens of millions of adults into chronic conditions, plus doctors would likely earn a fraction of what they make now because Medicare has extremely low reimbursement rates compared to commercial insurance which subsidizing Medicare's low rates.
With those higher percentages, looks like this is one area where women are outnumbering men at. An SJW feminist must be proud!
Well......................... yes it is. My daughter is a third year medical student and we have had this discussion.
When the feds kick in massive amounts of cash for training medical students and residents, it is a terrible waste of resources when women quit medicine early. MANY quit by age 40 to raise their kids- I don't blame them.
I would offer that the MAJOR cause of the physician shortage is due to half of the medical students being women. However, what can you do? You can discriminate against applicants based on sex, so this problem will continue to contribute to the physician shortage.
What will the US get? More and more mid level practitioners, or medicine by "docs" with only two years of training, and not in differential diagnosis, but care plans. I see the work ups by NPs and PAs sent to me and can say that they are flat out wrong about half the time. However, I would not expect them to be right most of the time, as they don't have enough training to be on par with physicians.
In the meantime, congress limits the number of medical residencies, hospitals, medical schools
They are building more med schools. However, they have not expanded the residency slots appreciably, so that there are now medical school grads that can't get a residency.
When you spend so much dough on illegals, you can't spend on the things US citizens need.
At first, many celebrate the 52 percent of first-year medical students being women as a step forward but new numbers show that there could be a massive shortage of medical care due to this.
It's one thing that women are the majority of medical school students, but many will marry in their same socio-economic class and many will end up working part-time.
31 percent of women doctors with children work part-time compared to 5% of men
In a study though, 64 percent of women medical doctors have considered moving to part-time status which is triple the rate of males.
Seems like this will add to the perfect storm of baby boomers increasing health needs, the skyrocketing obesity rates that will cause tens of millions of adults into chronic conditions, plus doctors would likely earn a fraction of what they make now because Medicare has extremely low reimbursement rates compared to commercial insurance which subsidizing Medicare's low rates.
And some people wonder why there is a wage gap between men, and women.
So there is a shortage now maybe because we have that baby boomer generation moving through the late stages of life. Looking at it hindsight I guess we should have seen it coming. But if we ramp up the amount of people going into the physician occupation, it would be a very long term solution that might almost create a bubble once the baby boomer generation has mostly passed away.
Well......................... yes it is. My daughter is a third year medical student and we have had this discussion.
When the feds kick in massive amounts of cash for training medical students and residents, it is a terrible waste of resources when women quit medicine early. MANY quit by age 40 to raise their kids- I don't blame them.
I would offer that the MAJOR cause of the physician shortage is due to half of the medical students being women. However, what can you do? You can discriminate against applicants based on sex, so this problem will continue to contribute to the physician shortage.
What will the US get? More and more mid level practitioners, or medicine by "docs" with only two years of training, and not in differential diagnosis, but care plans. I see the work ups by NPs and PAs sent to me and can say that they are flat out wrong about half the time. However, I would not expect them to be right most of the time, as they don't have enough training to be on par with physicians.
I’d like to see your articles showing NP/PA “flat out wrong” half the time. Not my experience.
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