The United States health care system is mobilizing to triage a public health emergency that is rapidly taking members of its workforce out of the ranks. Grim projections from the country's leading health officials over the weekend emphasized the toll the novel coronavirus could have on the U.S.
The United States health care system is mobilizing to triage a public health emergency that is rapidly taking members of its workforce out of the ranks.
The newly created California Health Corps will recruit health care providers, including medical students nearing completion of their studies, to address what the governor called the"human capital surge" that the state will need to ensure an adequate workforce is available to assist in the state's pandemic response.
Starting residency amid a global pandemic is something most medical students never imagined doing. Less than two weeks ago, fourth-year students were matched to the hospital residency programs where they will begin their careers as doctors. According to the National Resident Match Program, the 2020 match was the program’s largest in its history with a record-high of 40,084 applications for 37,256 positions.
Story continuesIn California, a spokesperson from Stanford University told ABC News Monday the school did not expect to adjust the date of graduation for medical students. The spokesperson also said Stanford Medicine did not have staffing shortages and was redeploying current staff to areas where they were most needed.
In Massachusetts, the state worked with the deans of medical schools on early graduations to expand the"cadre of physicians" who can join the state's fight against COVID-19, the Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders said during one of Gov. Charlie Baker's daily press conferences last week.
"In many ways, they are at their peak of medical knowledge," Dr. Humayun Chaudhry, the president of the Federation of State Medical Boards, told ABC News."Many of them know the basic sort of physical diagnosis skills that they need, and they feel frustrated," Chaudhry said in the interview."And I understand their frustration, but I think …we have to look out for their health as well.
Obstacles for foreign medical studentsAnother factor complicating the health care system's pandemic response is the thousands of foreign doctors set to come to the U.S. for residency programs in American hospitals. According to the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, international medical graduates account for a quarter of the active physician workforce and stand to play a critical role in combatting COVID-19.
"I think they’re going to have to deploy people differently," Pinsky said in an interview with ABC News."It’ll be a real issue."
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