HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-22 September 2008-Ross University Medicine Graduates Respond to U.S. Primary Care Crisis(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com

Overwhelming numbers of Ross University School of Medicine graduates are responding to a deepening healthcare crisis by

A survey by the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that only two percent of U.S. graduating medical students plan to work in primary care. A University of Missouri study highlights a dramatic shortfall of primary care doctors --- up to 44,000 by 2025. Federal studies project a national shortage of 55,000 physicians by 2020.

According to a release, within this sobering context, Ross University places more graduates into U.S. Residencies than any medical school in the world. Nearly two-thirds of its graduates --- 64 percent --- choose primary care. Ross University is the top feeder of new U.S. doctors into Family Practice and Internal Medicine. Since its inception, Ross University has graduated more than 6,500 physicians.

Many of these graduates practice in underserved inner city and rural areas. 20 percent of its students --- more than double the U.S. average --- are under-represented minorities and 50 percent of its graduates are women.

Ross University is a provider of medical and veterinary education offering doctor of medicine and doctor of veterinary medicine degree programs in the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Saint Kitts.

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