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Study: Fewer med students training as primary care docs

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By ABC7
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
April 26, 2011

A new study finds the percentage of med students who want to go into general internal medicine has dropped sharply over the past two decades.

General internists are already said to be a shrinking force.

Authors of the study in the Archives of Internal Medicine say there really is a pending crisis in primary care in this country, particularly as many older Americans are retiring

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