You've heard the grim prognosis many times before. Unless immediate action is taken, the U.S. supply of doctors will be 91,500 short of the number needed by 2020 and 130,600 physicians short by 2025, according to an Association of American Medical Colleges estimate.
Dr. Atul Grover, chief public policy officer at the AAMC, projects that the U.S. needs to train an additional 4,000 doctors a year to avoid a shortage, given the Obamacare insurance expansion, an aging physician workforce, shorter hours worked by younger physicians, and an aging population.