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To the Editor: Free medical school will not change a medical student's decision to pursue primary care.
Fifty percent of the students will pursue primary care residencies in internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology.
"I think I can fill a hole; I think that there's a big need," said Ms. Stuhlmiller, who plans to pursue primary care.
Fewer medical students are selecting primary care, and medical students' attitudes toward underserved populations may impact their decision to pursue primary care.
These positive outcomes for generalists should be weighed against other known and suspected negative consequences of the high costs of training, such as discouraging some poor students from medical careers altogether and perhaps influencing some medical students with high debt not to pursue primary care careers.
As a result, the number of medical students choosing to pursue primary care as a career is declining each year.
Interestingly, another main reason the above-mentioned graduates said they did not want to pursue primary care was that it has the lowest average salary, of only $186,000 per year.
Thereafter, the vast majority will continue in subspecialty training, and a few will pursue primary care training.
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