{"id":40776,"date":"2013-10-28T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T15:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_south_carolina_spends_plenty_to_educate_doctors_but_doesnt_have\/"},"modified":"2013-10-28T15:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T15:45:28","slug":"local_paper_south_carolina_spends_plenty_to_educate_doctors_but_doesnt_have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40776","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) South Carolina spends plenty to educate doctors, but doesn\u2019t have enough of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lyles estimates about 22,000 students graduate from medical school in the U.S. each year. He said there are 28,000 residency positions available, and the extra spots are filled by students who have attended international medical schools, many of them U.S. citizens returning home to practice.<\/p>\n<p>But as the number of medical schools across the country increases and the number of medical students in each graduating class increases too, the number of students who are unmatched every year will continue to grow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of residency spots is absolutely not keeping pace,\u201d\u009d said Dr. Chris Pelic, who counsels MUSC medical students during the interview process. \u201cIt\u2019s setting it up for a very difficult situation.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20131027\/PC16\/131029404\/1006\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyles estimates about 22,000 students graduate from medical school in the U.S. each year. He said there are 28,000 residency positions available, and the extra spots are filled by students who have attended international medical schools, many of them U.S.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40776\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,149,111,104,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-economy","category-education","category-health-medicine","category-ruraltown-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}