Primary Care
Concierge Medicine is Widening the Primary Care Gap — Retrained Physicians Can Help Fill it
Concierge medicine is on the rise. For a growing number of patients, paying an annual fee for easier access to their doctor sounds like a good trade-off. For physicians, it offers a path to reduced … Read More
The Impact of Policy Changes on Primary Care: Challenges and Opportunities
As discussions around healthcare policy continue, proposed and enacted changes under President Donald Trump’s administration raise questions about the future of primary care. These changes, ranging from health insurance reforms to public health interventions, could … Read More
What TV Shows Like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Virgin River” Teach Us About Primary Care
On the Netflix show “Virgin River,” set in a rural, fictional Northern California town, there is medical clinic run by “Doc” Vernon Mullins. Both the clinic and Doc are portrayed as an integral part … Read More
Why Retraining as a Primary Care Physician in Rural Areas is a Win-Win Solution
As the U.S. faces an unprecedented shortage of primary care physicians, rural communities are feeling the brunt of this crisis. These areas rely heavily on primary care providers, yet projections suggest they will have … Read More
Amid a Growing Physician Shortage, Retraining as a Primary Care Physician Offers a Path to Career Fulfillment and System Relief
While U.S. healthcare organizations are grappling with how to attract and retain physicians from a workforce that is continuing to shrink, individual physicians may be thinking about how to remain in the medical practice … Read More
The Aging Physician Workforce’s Impact on the Primary Care Physician Shortage
Prescriptions for Change: PRR Explores the U.S. Primary Care Physician Shortage
About half of all physicians in the primary care specialty were age 55 or older in 2021, according to the Association of American Medical … Read More
Even More Options for Primary Care Physicians: Drug Stores
Walgreens plans to open primary care practices in its stores and CVS’ similar announcement that it would be remaking hundreds of their stores to include primary care clinics reflects the nation’s growing need for health … Read More
Older Physicians Have Options Beyond Retirement
There’s been a lot of research on aging physicians and their ability to still deliver competent medical care. With so many of the nation’s physicians continuing to skew older, according to the Journal of the … Read More
Addressing the Primary Care Physician Shortage by “Recycling” Doctors
Dr. Leonard Glass, a Physician Retraining & Reentry co-founder, says the idea for PRR began when he thought about “recycling” the potential pool of hundreds of thousands of physicians who were retired, near retirement or … Read More