More Residency Spots & Fewer New Medical Schools? #doctor #physicianfinance #medschool

To ensure that there is an expansion of postgraduate medical education to support new students, COCA has instituted requirements such as the need for new schools to create GME spots for residencies that are at least 30% of its class size. Thank goodness. Thank you COCA for doing that. This is not required by the LCME for MD schools as I understand it, but it was an important need which the DO community felt should be required. I think this is going to mean fewer medical schools get opened altogether for better or for worse. Maybe that will give the residency slots a chance to catch up to all the medical school slots that have been open in the last few years. I'd sure like to see the match rate go up a little bit. I worry about all these doctors who have been graduating from medical school but not matching and having that number go up over the last decade has been pretty concerning to me. That's a tough spot to be in and I want to see as few docs as possible in that spot.