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Survey findings demonstrate that clinical supervisors often send students away before opposite-gender patients enter, believing patients would be uncomfortable, without actually asking for patient consent.

Most pediatricians not practicing DPC still express interest, but cite financial and institutional barriers as major deterrents.

“We’ve published several editorials in this past year focused on a 1-year fellowship in a specialty that arguably needs way, way more time, more than 1 year. Are we doing our trainees or even our patients a disservice by continuing that 1-year construct, which is now solidly 30 years old?”

“We are starting to lose our junior faculty, which means you no longer have a pipeline…they often are overworked, and they don’t see a way out of their situation.”

The NRMP has actively engaged in discussion about the physician pipeline and stands ready to provide data and information that further inform the conversation.

Emergency departments primarily manage routine cases requiring primary care follow-up rather than performing frequent life-saving interventions, contrasting sharply with dramatic TV portrayals.