Disappearing Docs: A Looming Shortage of Primary Care Providers is Changing the Face of Health Care

Excerpt:...the thinning ranks of physicians in the departments of family and internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, where fewer students are choosing primary care, has been an unfortunate but widely known fact in the medical community going back a decade or more.
"If you look at the physician workforce, more than a third are in primary care,” says Valerie Gilchrist, professor and chair of the UW Department of Family Medicine. “If you look at the graduates of medical schools, less than a fifth are choosing primary care."