Gillian Schmitz, MD, FACEP, an ACEP Past President and associate professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in San Antonio, co-authored a recent editorial on the Workforce Study in Annals of Emergency Medicine stating, “The long-term effect of supply and demand remains complex and difficult to predict but the sky is not falling.”2 She explained to ACEP Now, “From the perspective of the local environment, of course we want residents. From a national perspective, it gets more complicated.”
Dr. Schmitz credited Christus Spohn for planning to close the program gradually, allowing current residents to finish their training, instead of leaving them scrambling, as happened when Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia closed in 2019. But an important take away is the effect on the pipeline of future physicians, she said. Physicians often tend to stay in an area where they enjoyed their medical training.
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