Only 21.5 of surveyed internal medicine residents reported general internal medicine as their career plan. Conversely, 65.3 percent of categorical residents and 52.5 percent of primary care residents reported a subspecialty career plan.
The country is already beginning to face a shortage of physicians, and will sorely need more primary care and general medicine physicians when roughly 32 million Americans gain insurance coverage for the first time from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The survey was completed by 57,087 residents from 2009 through 2011.
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