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Residency Match Results Demonstrate Need To Address National Primary Care Workforce Goals: American College Of Physicians

For each of the past two years, the number of U.S. medical students choosing internal medicine residencies has decreased by approximately 1 percent from the previous year. According to the 2009 National Resident Matching Program report, 2,632 U.S. seniors at medical schools enrolled in an internal medicine residency program — down from 2,660 in 2008 and 2,680 in 2007.

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Goals In Health Care, Other Areas Outlined In Obama Budget Proposal Likely To Require Many New Federal Workers

The fiscal year 2010 budget proposal that President Obama released last week likely would require the administration to hire tens of thousands of new federal employees to meet his “ambitious” goals in a number of areas, such as health care, the Washington Post reports.

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Members Of House, Senate Discuss Goals For Overhauling U.S. Health Care System

Summaries of recent news about lawmakers’ approaches and goals for overhauling the U.S. health care system appear below.House: Attempts at health care reform this year might not result in a single, comprehensive piece of legislation but instead could be done in “stages,” according to House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.

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