2011: Year in Review Medical Education Community Makes Concerted Call for Changing the System

"The increased attention to the lack of family physicians and other primary care physicians needed to meet the nation's growing needs may have had an effect on medical students' choice of specialty. For the second year in a row, the number of medical students who chose to enter family medicine rose, according to the National Resident Matching Program. In fact, the fill rate for family medicine in 2011 was a record high of 94.4 percent, up 3 percent from 2010."