By: Melisa jones
Submitted: 2010-08-26 15:02:37 | Word Count: 628
If you happen to finish medical school in the year 1955, then you will surely be able to get hold of marvelous opportunities and work in nice places with very handsome salary packages. One graduate didn't have it so good. Though he can brandish a medical school diploma, he still fell into a pit of competition with very low pay that also lacks in stability.
Now, as its shine from being the golden profession has waned, doctors have less autonomy and the once sacred doctor patient relationship has been soiled due to managed care's supremacy in the market. Today, medical students find out where they'll be doing their postgraduate residencies. For those who find themselves right at the hospital of their choice, matching day is wonderful. This is an awful reality check for those who are not as lucky when it comes to their career opportunities.
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Medical schools and doctors are just too many nowadays, based on a survey. A recent study reported in the journal of the American medical association found that more than 10 percent of residents who train in a specialty could not find jobs in their fields in some parts of the country. A private sector funded study recommends to the shutdown of more US medical schools to lessen the surplus of doctors, and also for medical schools to lessen the students they accept by 20 to 25 percent.
A noted medical center based in Boston that works for a university by teaching hospital will surely cut jobs for many doctors. A doctor and also now the dean of a famous med school recalls that things were better for doctors during his time than the way they are now. Many positions await in the areas they wanted to pursue, according to him. Since the generalist fields such as internal medicine, pediatrics and family medicine have seen steady growth since the 1990s or earlier, many students in medicine prudently traverse these careers as seen in the past few years.
The national resident matching program conducted a study and have found that there is a fall on the students who choose to pursue specialty fields in medicine like anaesthesiology, internal medicine and paediatrics. One is on the sinking figures of students who opt to take anaesthesiology. A soon to be doctor declined to pursue anaesthesiology for it dawned on him that he might not easily be able to find work in this field. He states that the opportunities are scarce nowadays. But then the American medical association has one female doctor board member who states that the reports of having too many physicians is not very true since there are still tons of rural communities like her town who are in dire need to have more physicians.
This lady doctor further adds the risk they take that their greatest students no longer get into the medical profession because of all the damning things that they hear about their field even when they are not even sure if this is truly the case. Even when faced with such uncertainty, many of these young physicians are confident perhaps spurred by the influence of TV shows with medical themes that also increase the appreciation of people towards medical schools. This female doctor still claims that being a physician is still the greatest calling in the world even if they no longer earn or work under the autonomy many of those before them used to have.
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