Internal medicine appears to be the last option of medical students when it comes to choose medicine as a career specialty according to a survey published in the September 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The findings were first presented at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s annual meeting in April being accompanied by a research letter about the salaries of the nation’s doctors. The survey made on 1,177 respondents at 11 US medical schools shockingly revealed that only 2 percent of them planned to pursue careers in general internal medicine. Back in 1990, a similar survey revealed that 9 percent of those interviewed would choose internal medicine. ‘It’s getting increasingly difficult to find a (family medicine) doctor especially in rural areas. It’s a tenuous situation as students look to careers that are financially rewarding because they have a lot of debt and they’re looking away from primary care,’ Dr. Mark H. Ebell, the study’s author and a primary care doctor at the University of Georgia, said. For example, medical students owe a median of $140,000 in student loan when they graduate. There are many reasons for which medical students look away […]