America needs more doctors and nurses to survive the next pandemic

Just read an article that many of these clinicians reveal profound moral trauma as many combatants do after deployment.
Rich

LTC Eugene Chu such a change would be valuable throughout our health care system. We need to get started on this before the issue fades with time.

Match Day (med school graduates "matched" to hospital residency slots) was just last month. US med schools finally started increasing their acceptance rates & class sizes a few years ago. Internships are actually not a "thing" as much as in past decades. Residency slots are "capped" because of the relationship with Medicare, as determined by Congress. This year's match rate was 92%+/- which is good, but still leaves quite a few folks 'lost' figuring out their futures& opportunities to actually be able to become Drs (some go to research, some pursue MPH, MBA, etc). It's a squirrelly part of the "system" we don't see as patients, and that 8%+/- have already accumulated huge med school debt. Congress could act, and in fact part of the current administration's BBB mega bill was to increase residency slots. If it's worthy then Congress has the option to make it a stand-alone bill.