Increasing number of Providers veering away from primary care

Do you agree or disagree with the question response? Why or why not? There have been an increasing number of providers veering away from primary care and leaning towards specializing and sub-specializing, which may negatively impact health care. Many providers see the greater reward, support, and success in specialty fields that are not seen in general primary care

One way to steer providers towards primary care would be by incentivizing it further, but from the education level

For example, SUNY Buffalo recognized a shortage in biomedical scientists due to the fact that a large percentage of students majoring in biomedical science were pre-med and ended up going to medical school to practice as physicians post graduation.

To combat this issue, the university began offering a scholarship program that covered the cost of tuition and a percentage of room and board for students majoring in biomedical science who were not planning on attending medical school.

If students accepted this offer but later decided to pursue medical school they would be required to pay back the money the program awarded them. Medical Schools and Nurse Practitioner programs can implement a similar idea that incentivizes continuing onto primary care from early on.

The cost of these schools can be a large burden and the idea of having that burden alleviated would most likely be appealing to many students. As a result, more providers may pursue primary care and be less interested in specializing from the start.