Jason LaMarr Wasden*

University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

*Corresponding Author: Jason LaMarr Wasden, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA.

Received: June 27, 2024; Published: July 31, 2024

Abstract

Graduate medical education funding in the United States is the key to training specialists in healthcare in Nevada. Providing stable funding to the system ensures residents will remain in the communities they reside when their undergraduate medical education is completed and followed up with Graduate Medical Education. In Nevada 77% of physicians who complete both undergraduate and graduate course work in the states remain in the state. From 2021 to 2023 there were a total of 389 residents who pursued residencies from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the University of Nevada Reno. 98 students stayed in Nevada and 70 of those students graduated from UNLV. In order to grow the workforce Nevada needs to train specialists in the communities where they train. Medical specialists like dermatology typically choose to stay in the communities where they receive their training. In order to grow a medical workforce teaching hospitals and purposeful cooperative collaboration is needed to provide adequate funding to train physicians who will practice in Nevada.

 Keywords: American; Allopath; Disciplines; Education; Global Healthcare Systems; Graduate; Match day; Medicaid; Medical; Medical Residency; Medicare; Nevada; Oral Surgeon; Osteopathic; Physician; Physician Shortage; Prevention in Primary Care; Programs; Specialty Treatment; Undergraduate; University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV); University of Nevada Reno (UNR)

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Citation

Citation: Jason LaMarr Wasden. “Graduate Medical Education and University Physician Specialist Training in Nevada”.Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 8.8 (2024): 187-190.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2024 Jason LaMarr Wasden. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.