Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Many Medical Students Will Always Want to Specialize

I feel as if medical students are talented in, qualify for, and are motivated to get into a particular specialty, then they should. According to the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), a not-for-profit organization, there are 24 approved medical specialties. Furthermore, there are subspecialties of medical doctors. Hence, medical students have a lot of specialties to choose from if they want to specialize.
Therefore, although there may be a stronger need for primary care physicians across the country, it would be very difficult to convince many more medical students to not specialize. Personally speaking, I trust the most the medical advice of the specialist especially because primary care doctors follow the advice of the specialists. All in all, unless higher pay is given to primary care physicians, I believe many medical students will continue to want to specialize.

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