| April 2005 · Vol. 17, No. 4 Letters
Will foreign grads rescue the specialty?
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Fast Track
“We all would win—maybe even trial lawyers, who would be liberated from making millions from other people’s suffering”
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Although the percentage of American medical students choosing the Ob/Gyn specialty is declining, as Dr. Robert L. Barbieri pointed out in his December editorial (“EasyROAD—high road or path of least resistance?”), foreign students are filling in the gaps. Many of these students have a good deal of experience in their country of origin—they aren’t necessarily less competent physicians.
As for the economics of reimbursements and malpractice premiums, I don’t see how they can improve, given the current state of affairs. Call schedules may ease, however, and that may be an incentive for medical students to choose the specialty.
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