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How dermatology became the 'it' job in medicine

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47 points bookofjoe | 3 comments | 18 Nov 24 12:56 UTC | HN request time: 1.23s | source
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amluto ◴[18 Nov 24 13:53 UTC] No.42172284[source]▶
> Recently, her hospital’s dermatology program received more than 600 applications for four residency slots.

Perhaps if supply of dermatologists was not so strongly limited, prices and wait times would improve.

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1. quantumwoke ◴[18 Nov 24 14:10 UTC] No.42172399[source]▶
The problem is not limited supply but rather the ability to train sufficient supply in a reasonable timeframe which necessitates attending pay cuts (because they can't do as much work) and creation of funded structured training programs with good teachers and case mix. Source: my wife is a doctor
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2. scld ◴[18 Nov 24 14:19 UTC] No.42172483[source]▶
Increasing the time and cost of the training is how the supply is limited.
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3. quantumwoke ◴[18 Nov 24 16:00 UTC] No.42173639[source]▶
Can you expand on this? I don't think this is the whole story. Perhaps a concrete example would help.