2013
DOI: 10.1097/acm.0b013e318277a7df
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Can Medical Students Afford to Choose Primary Care? An Economic Analysis of Physician Education Debt Repayment

Abstract: A primary care career remains financially viable for medical school graduates with median levels of education debt. Graduates pursuing primary care with higher debt levels need to consider additional strategies to support repayment such as extended repayment terms, use of a federal loan forgiveness/repayment program, or not living in the highest-cost areas.

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“…[3][4][5] Fewer physicians now enter into outpatient primary care, 6 and there is a looming attrition rate of PCPs, with almost one-quarter of practicing PCPs in 2011 being 56 years of age or older. 7 Current strategies to address the primary care shortage include payment structure reform, 8,9 implementation of team-based primary care with patient centered medical homes, 10,11 as well as increasing the number of primary care based graduate medical education residency positions. 12,13 Many internal medicine residency programs have emphasized ambulatory medicine by creating primary care tracks that are designed to highlight outpatient medicine.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…[3][4][5] Fewer physicians now enter into outpatient primary care, 6 and there is a looming attrition rate of PCPs, with almost one-quarter of practicing PCPs in 2011 being 56 years of age or older. 7 Current strategies to address the primary care shortage include payment structure reform, 8,9 implementation of team-based primary care with patient centered medical homes, 10,11 as well as increasing the number of primary care based graduate medical education residency positions. 12,13 Many internal medicine residency programs have emphasized ambulatory medicine by creating primary care tracks that are designed to highlight outpatient medicine.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…7 This student concern is supported by economic analyses projecting the long-term income of young primary care physicians. 16,17 Thus we are now facing a paradox in the United States: family medicine-the specialty that creates the greatest health value for the nation-is viewed by medical students as the specialty that offers the least personal financial security.…”
Section: High Debt Influences Medical Students To Choose Specialty Camentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Less well known as part of the solution for steering more recent graduates to primary care and underserved areas, are the programs which have been set up in many states to provide scholarships and loans in exchange for practice in underserved areas. Recent work found loan forgiveness programs to be among the most financially advantageous for indebted medical school graduates selecting careers in primary care [20].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%