title: A Shortage of Medical Residency Positions: Parallels with Psychology.
abstract: Physician shortages in the US are expected to intensify with the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. These shortages may negatively impact access to care, quality of care, and confidence in the system's ability to adequately provide for health needs in the US. Concerns regarding physician demand underscore how critical Graduate Medical Education funding is to preparing the physician workforce. In 2014 5.6 % of US medical school seniors did not match into residency. Psychology has faced longstanding training imbalance issues with a misalignment between the number of internship positions and the number of applicants. The authors summon attention to the damaging effects a training imbalance poses to a health care profession, its trainees, and ultimately the public it serves.
authors.affiliation: Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. donna.lapaglia@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5083-0094
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: LaPaglia
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: William N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Robiner
authors.affiliation: University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA.
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Yozwiak
authors.affiliation: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Cheryl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brosig
authors.affiliation: Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cubic
authors.affiliation: New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leventhal
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010820:Physicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011584:Psychology / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce
keywords: Internship imbalance; Match; Psychiatry; Psychology; Residency imbalance; Resident; Workforce