While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field is trying to figure out how to manage a potential oversupply of physicians. The American College of Emergency Physicians predicted in a 2021 study that there would be a surplus of nearly 8,000 emergency physicians by 2030. In the wake of this news, medical students’ interest in the field nosedived over the next two years. Whereas 99.5% of emergency medicine residency positions were filled in 2021, there were hundreds of unmatched seats in emergency medicine residencies in 2022 and 2023 — 554 of them this year alone.
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Source: https://www.statnews.com/2023/10/27/emergency-medicine-oversupply