Primary Care – Physician Retraining and Reentry

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

Physician Retraining, Physician Shortage, Primary Care

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

Physician Retraining, Physician Shortage, Primary Care

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

Physician Shortage, Primary Care

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

Primary Care

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

Physician Shortage, Primary Care, 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

In The News, Physician Burnout, Physician Shortage, Primary Care, PRR Program, Retirement

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

Redeployment of Primary Care Workers During Pandemic: One Physician’s Look Back

COVID-19, Primary Care

Looking back to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, one Chicago-based physician can clearly see how valuable “redeployment” of family and primary care physicians was to both the frontline health care of patients and preventative … Read More

The Primary Care Physician Income Gap: PRR Part of the Solution

News, Physician Shortage, Primary Care

The primary care physician shortage in the U.S. is blamed on many factors, including an aging population, physician burnout and new physicians seeking specialty practices because of higher pay. On that latter issue, researchers and think … Read More

Why Switch to a General Practitioner Practice?

Primary Care

Many Physician Retraining & Reentry (PRR) participants had very clear, sometimes obvious, reasons why they wanted to transition from a specialized practice to a general practitioner. PRR has enrolled a surgeon who no longer had the eyesight needed for surgery … Read More