The United States is expected to face a doctor’s shortage between 13,500 and 86,000 by 2036, according to a report Posted a year ago by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
Before the day of the game at the end of this month, Health innovation talk with The Dean of Faculty of Medicine of the American University of the Caribbean (AUC)Dr. Mark E. Rosenberg, MD, FASN, for more information about what they are doing to Comply with the demands of the doctor’s workforce.
Coming from Canada, Dr. Rosenberg held positions at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Minnesota, including the Vicecan of Education and Academic Affairs. In the Minneapolis VA Medical Care System, he was head of Medicine and director of the Primary and Specialized Medicine Service Line. He has been with AUC for six months.
AUC is a two campus school. A campus is located in St. Martin, and the other is in Preston, England. Students spend approximately two years of their first phase of medical education on any of these campuses. Clinical training is carried out in the United States, the United Kingdom or both countries. «It is a standard medical education program of the United States … and the same residence agrees that US medical students,» Rosenberg said.
Rosenberg explained that students have to select a specialty such as pediatrics or surgery after completing their MD title. «Then they enter this National Party, and on March 21, they will discover where the next phase of their medical education will be.»
Could you speak with historically present bias when students go abroad for medical education?
A school like AUC expands access for more students to become doctors. In the United States, a scarcity of the workforce for doctors is projected, but probably for any health worker. International medical graduates, American or non -American citizens represent about 25 percent of the United States workforce.
Medicine schools in the United States and Canada are not expanding enough to address this challenge of the projected workforce. There must be more than one way to the school of medicine, and AUC does so. It offers another way for qualified students who did not receive an opportunity at an American or Canadian medical school.
Many students qualified in our school will be excellent doctors, but they have been closed because there are simply not enough places. It is about doing doctors who will serve future patients and communities.
Given the shortage, has the correspondence rate improved?
Last year, around 40,000 positions were offered in the game, and that is in all the United States. About 98 percent of our students coincide. In a US school, it is probably very comparable. There is a main residence coincidence. For students who do not match, there is what is called a supplementary party. About 93 percent of the positions are filled in the main party, and then through the supplementary party, it reaches 90 highs.
Last year, around 2700 positions were not put, so the students have the rest of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to interview the places that were not filled. On Thursday, this supplementary match for the remaining 2700 positions is.
A school like ours has a very comparable party rate compared to US schools, and we, together with our associated school, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ross, we occupy the first place for all the Caribbean schools in terms of the correspondence rate. (Discharge of responsibility: *Based on the information available on the websites of schools from July 2024. Methodologies vary).
The rate is much lower if you take into account all international medicine schools.
Why do you think this school makes it better than some of the others?
We have excellent students and an excellent education program. Our students enter with many different experiences, and in many ways, they have a level of maturity and life skills that not all medical students have. When they end with the school of medicine, they stand out. When they are rotating in hospitals in the United States or the United Kingdom, I think that residence programs recognize it; Come are very focused on the patient.
What is the percentage of students who go to the US for their residence?
There are some who go to Canada, but then, and occasionally, some remain in the United Kingdom for their training system after the Medicine School. Most, 99 percent coincide with a residence in the United States.
Many students go to rural areas due to the shortage of personnel we see here in the United States?
We have no exact numbers of how many of our students go to rural or unattended areas. In last year’s party, about 60 percent of them coincided with a primary care specialty, defined as family medicine, internal medicine or pediatrics. Those doctors are those who tend to be more in rural or unattended areas.
What advice is for international medicine schools?
Have a solid clinical training program and instill in students who feel they are here to serve. That is the approach we take in AUC.
Is there less interest in studying medicine?
The number of applicants to the School of Medicine each year has increased. During Covid, we saw the greatest increase in the number of students interested in medicine, to the point that schools in the US. Uu. They have many more applications than they have places.
At the University of Minnesota, where I was, we would have more than 4000 applications for qualified students for 240 places a year, and we were the seventh largest school of medicine.
There are this large number of students requested by the School of Medicine who do not have a place. That is an opportunity for a school like AUC. The requirements for students are basically the same as for any US school.
There is no shortage of people out there who want to become doctors.
