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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 "The mismatch between the supply and demand ... is a longstanding problem," said Camargo, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School. "The need for emergency services is large and growing; and even if existing programs graduated more physicians, there is little reason to think more of those graduates would move to the rural areas that are particularly short on physicians with this specialized training."
Camargo said alternatives should be examined, "such as giving the family physicians who currently staff many U.S. emergency departments extra training in key emergency procedures. We might also increase our reliance on nurse practitioners and physicians assistants, who can help emergency physicians of any training background better handle the continually rising number of patients."
The study was published in the December issue of Academic Emergency Medicine.
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