Comments on: Match Results: 2010 Fill Rate for Family Medicine Highest Ever — AAFP News Now — American Academy of Family Physicians

By: Goatwhacker

Goatwhacker — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:03:44 +0000

I’m a FP and there is no way I would recommend it to a new med school grad. Maybe things will change but right now you will make better money and have a better lifestyle doing something else.

By: Frank Drackman

Frank Drackman — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:56:01 +0000

Even Osama Bin Laden wouldn’t do FP…

By: TheNewGuy

TheNewGuy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:44:46 +0000

The tried to push FP at my medical school too.

Most students saw through the sales pitch.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:16:04 +0000

Pretty pathetic ratio of US grads. Good that it is at least filling though. Better a doc that doesn’t speak your language worth a crap than no doc at all. 30 million new patients gonna be forced illegally by our own gov’t to buy insurance. They will want to get their money’s worth!

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:24:04 +0000

For many years now the AAFP has pushed for universal coverage and the concept of a “medical home”. I think this idea is also pushed in medical schools. (At least it was at my school.) Medical students are a little naive about the business of medicine at graduation and with obamacare so close to passing, I’m not really surprised that FP did well this year.

By: BladeDoc

BladeDoc — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:46:00 +0000

Family medicine did well because they continue to increase the number of non-us grads that they accept. Look at the full list here http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__C0zeuMrITI/S6Kp0zIL4sI/AAAAAAAADx4/Ys0EdlmjtOs/s1600-h/2010-Residency-Match.jpg (hat-tip to the happy hospitalist http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/ )