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Summer Immersion Experiences Returning this Season
STUDENT INTEREST & INITIATIVES
By: Perry Price NCAFP Manager of Workforce Initiatives
STUDENT UPDATE
For the first time in two years, we are back to in-person Summer Immersion Experiences for Medical Students! Fourteen students between their first and second years of medical school will be participating in eye-opening experiences across the state that will guide them in their Family Medicine journeys.
The MAHEC Hendersonville Residency program is generously opening their doors to nine students who will be spending two weeks in Western North Carolina. Their first week will be engaging in activities such as patient home visits, rural health and Family Medicine discussions, Wilderness Medicine sessions, hands on skills workshops, visits to a rural hospital, health department, FQHC, or other safety-net clinics, and more. In the second week, they will be matched with a practicing family physician to spend a week in the life of a family doctor working in rural or other underserved areas. We are incredibly grateful to MAHEC Hendersonville for hosting!
Five students will be participating in our 4-Week Clinical Externship Program which is designed to offer students a chance to work with a practicing community family physician to see first-hand the daily life and activity of a full time, community-based family doctor. Many thanks to the following physicians who are opening their practices and hosting our students this summer: Conrad Fick, MD, at Family Medical Associates of Raleigh; Michael Harris, MD, at Carolina Family Practice & Sports Medicine; Latonja Ivery, MD, at Novant Health Village Family Care; Ben Fischer, MD at Fischer Clinic, and Dimitrios Hondros, MD at Avance Care Matthews.
Family Medicine is a field with innumerable rewards, the greatest being community. One of the most impactful things that you as a physician can do to give back to that community is serving as a preceptor to medical students who are pursuing their own career in the field. Preceptors help students translate theoretical learning to actual understanding of what clinical practice looks like and gain a further understanding of what their future can hold. Interested in learning more or serving as a Ppreceptor? Reach out to Perry Price, Manager of Workforce Initiatives, at perry@ ncafp.com.
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Medical Students and Residents - are you interested in connecting with nearly 3,000 peers and exploring Family Medicine up close through 3 days of tailored Family Medicine workshops, networking opportunities, and an exhibit hall? Register to attend the 2022 AAFP National Conference in Kansas City, MO from July 28-30! From birth to end of life care, Family Medicine is the backbone of health. As the future of Family Medicine, you deserve access to innovative education, dynamic resources, and important professional 24 connections. Register now at AAFP.org/NC!
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RESIDENTS & NEW PHYSICIANS
By: Perry Price NCAFP Manager of Workforce Initiatives
RESIDENT MATCH UPDATE
Near Record Number of NC Medical Students Enter Family Medicine
A near record number of medical students from North Carolina’s five medical schools will enter Family Medicine residency programs later this summer. A total of 85 students matched into Family Medicine from our state’s medical schools, just shy of the record 92 that entered in 2018. In total, just over 13 percent of our state’s medical students chose Family Medicine as their career path in 2022. Of the 85 students going into Family Medicine, 37 (or just over 43 percent) are staying in state for residency training.
Campbell University’s Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine led the way with a record 43 graduates entering Family Medicine this year and 15 of those staying in state for residency training. The 43 students represent 29 percent of their 2022 graduates. ECU and UNC had 14 and 19 of their graduating medical students match into Family Medicine respectively, with each school having over 57 percent of those students staying in state for training.
NCAFP continues to track long-term match rates from our state’s medical schools, tracking the percent entering Family Medicine from each school, the actual number of students entering Family Medicine by school, the percent staying in state for Family Medicine and residency training, as well as the actual number staying in state for training (See Tables 1, 2 and 3). Research shows that students who attend both medical school and residency in the same state are extraordinarily likely to practice in that state.
Nationally, Family Medicine residency programs offered 4,916 first-year positions in 2022, with a fill rate of over 90 percent. This year, 1,541 U.S. allopathic seniors matched into Family Medicine, and 1,494 U.S. osteopathic seniors matched into the specialty. The number of first-year Family Medicine residency positions in the United States has grown
from 3,629 in 2018 to 4,916 in 2022, an increase of over 35 percent in five short years.
