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Originally Posted by blankall
It's definitely not competitive in family medicine. Existing doctors are begging for additional GPs to staff their clinics. The problem is most people who enter medical school don't want to limit themselves to family medicine.
I know UBC tried to set up a specialty rural family medicine program. The problem was most entrants would just straight up lie and say they wanted to do rural medicine, to get their foot in the medical school door, but then transfer out into specialty programs later.
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even those that feel they do want to do family medicine, most (for a variety of simple and complex reasons) aren't interested in being the family doctor we have a romantic notion of (buying into a practice etc etc). some med schools are refocusing curriculum to funnel many or most into family practice but alot of those folks really just want to locum, work part time, work surgical assist, work as hospitalist attendings, work in sports med, derm med etc