A survey in New York State has come up with a  perhaps surprising finding that family medicine, never a specialty particularly promoted in the Empire State, is now the one  with the greatest demand among the state’s medical residents.

Indeed,  primary-care advocates have  called for greater support for family medicine and other primary-care specialties for several decades with little response. For many years, few of New York’s academic medical centers even offered family-medicine training, making its new popularity even more noteworthy.

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