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...American Medical Association (AMA) does notsupport Clinton's 50 percent policy. Dr. Harry S.Jonas, assistant vice president for medicaleducation at the AMA, says "I don't think the pushfor an equal ratio makes any sense...
...AMA believes that we should do everythingpossible to encourage people to choose primarycare careers, because the trend has been going somuch the other way," he says. "For the governmentto try to legislate numbers goes against our grainbecause we believer that students have the freedomof choice...
Other organizations are taking a different tack. The American Medical Association's (AMA) Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, responsible for governing residencies, recently lifted a one-year moratorium on accrediting new sub-specialties. They temporary suspension was designed to remedy the nation's problem of "too few generalists and too many specialists...
Having more residencies for generalists is a good step. The trouble is, neither the AMA nor the government program ensures that there will be enough residents to staff them. By focusing on medical school graduates, both of these efforts take the wrong approach to attacking the primary care crisis. Neither solution really addresses the problem of fostering an interest in primary care among students still in medical school...
...authors chose to narrow their focus by selecting only three issues, instead of analyzing the broad range of areas where the AMA attempts to influence legislation on behalf of the public and the medical profession," Todd said...