Growth outpaces doctor supply

Population growth has for years outstripped the state’s ability to produce an adequate supply of doctors at its four medical schools, forcing the state to recruit physicians from other states and abroad. “The fundamental structure of the physician supply depends on how many we train, and how many we import,” said Thomas C. Ricketts, deputy director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-Chapel Hill. “Basically, that has…

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