ensues released by the National Res...

ensues released by the National Resident Matching Program point out to that the 2003 national fill rate for family practice residency positions was 762 percent (2239 positions filled of 2940 positions offered) representing a decrease from last year's 79 percent The fill-rate percentage for senior medical learners in the United States continued to decline from 474 percent in 2002 to 42 percent in 2003 Factors that may be influencing this run include inadequate reimbursement for patient services including those provided to Medicare patients, increasing regulatory cargos and decreasing federal budgetary support of family medicine training programs. The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) convoyed major studies from 1998 to 2000 at the University of Arizona, Tucson to determine the causes of this incline of declining fill rates for family medicine. In 2001 the AAFP created the to come of Family Medicine project to determine the health care and technology needinesss of patients and to examine ways to provide relevant residency curriculum and up-to-date continuing medical education. For a unimpaired listing of the 2003 National Resident Matching Program proceeds visit www.aafp.org/match.

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