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Basic Ophthalmology for Medical Students and Primary Care Residents American Academy of Ophthalmology, Cynthia A. Bradford
Publisher: American Academy of Ophthalmology

Publisher: Amer Academy of Ophthalmology (January, 1999). Minimum 11 years study for basic Family physician. Some may choose to do an additional fellowship as well. Basic Ophthalmology for Medical Students and Primary Care Residents. Who would want to go into primary care medicine now? They are doctors similar to non-medical "doctors" in other allied health care professions like optometry, podiatry, dentistry, psychology, etc. Students from 4 colleges and they consistently complain that the AOA serves no purpose for them because they want to seek the best residency [many times allopathic] and the AOA won't approve it because there are D.O. One thing I found interesting in their thesis is that they equate excess medical school training with wastes in US health care costs and feel that training (including residency) could be “reduced by 30% without compromising physician . The new system After all, if naturopaths could actually deliver good primary care at a cost equal to or less than M.D. Residency Instead of classifying us as osteopathic physicians it merely states "All doctors consisting of Primary Care Providers, Generalists, and Medical Specialists including Ophthalmologists, Oral Maxillofacial Surgery and Osteopaths. Why not just let physician's assistants and nurse practitioners care for people with non life threatening illnesses (sore throat, stuffy nose, etc)to increase the supply of medical providers? In an attempt to tame this beast, Oregon recently established a system of coordinated care organizations, or CCOs, to (as the name suggests) coordinate medical, mental health, and dental care for residents enrolled in Oregon Health Plan, the state's Medicaid program. Chiropractors usually have the academic degree of 4 years of undergraduate. As commenters on an DRH Econlog post just one day ago pointed out, the constraint on new doctors isn't really medical-school admissions, it is "residency" training slots. Minimum 13-16+ years for any other specialty. PCPs, you'd think the CCOs would jump at the chance to include them.