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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish he somehow tipped this in favor of the more desperately needed medical specialties. [/quote]

Hopkins is not in the business of training primary care physicians--they don't even have a family medicine program. My brother did an internal medicine residency there and out of 36 members of his class, all but one went on to do fellowships to become cardiologists, nephrologists, etc. 
They want to train URMs, first gen, etc but as subspecialists--not primary care physicians.

There are plenty of other medical schools who have robust primary care programs (including research goals within the primary care fields) and view this as their mission.

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Family medicine is a very broad term.  My sibling did internal medicine.  Its not that Hopkins doesn't support it, its most people don't choose it.[/quote]

No, family medicine is an actual residency program (which Hopkins does not have.). 
They do have an internal medicine residency and almost nobody from this program actually practices internal medicine when they graduate.  They all do further subspecialty training and then practice cardiology, endocrinology, oncology, etc.

My husband was an internal medicine resident at Hopkins.  He was the only one in his class who has elected to actually practice internal medicine (ie. the only one who works in primary care).  20 years later and he's an internist.  His residency classmates are all sub speciality physicians like cardiologist, oncologist, etc.  About 95% of them are at academic medical centers.  My husband sees patients---manages their high blood pressure, diabetes, weight gain, acne, etc.  His classmates who are cardiologists, oncologists, etc often see patients 1 or 2 days per week and otherwise do clinical research, laboratory research, etc.

Medicine needs both types of physicians---but Hopkins is not known for the former. They create tertiary, sub specialists.  [/quote]

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