If I had my way.
Emergency medicine would be gone. I work in and I am familiar with several systems where there is no "emergency" specialty and it works just fine. If not better.
At the very least I would make it a subspecialty of anesthesia or IM.
Dermatology, gone. Duties assumed by GP or IM.
probably simpler to roll interventional cardiology and interventional radiology all into vascular surgery.
I would condense many of the surgical subspecialties too.
Hepato/biliary and Colorectal would be put right back into general surgery.
Sports medicine would be entirely covered by Ortho.
Nuclear medicine would be a function of radiology or vice versa, no need to have both whatever group gave more lobbying dollars.
Eliminate family med entirely, just roll it into internal med.
Eliminate preventative medicine entirely. Those roles are easily covered by non physicians at a much cheaper rate.
Combine Neuro/psych, with psych being a subspecialty of neuro.
Could always roll PM&R into ortho as well.
Emergency medicine would be gone. I work in and I am familiar with several systems where there is no "emergency" specialty and it works just fine. If not better.
At the very least I would make it a subspecialty of anesthesia or IM.
Dermatology, gone. Duties assumed by GP or IM.
probably simpler to roll interventional cardiology and interventional radiology all into vascular surgery.
I would condense many of the surgical subspecialties too.
Hepato/biliary and Colorectal would be put right back into general surgery.
Sports medicine would be entirely covered by Ortho.
Nuclear medicine would be a function of radiology or vice versa, no need to have both whatever group gave more lobbying dollars.
Eliminate family med entirely, just roll it into internal med.
Eliminate preventative medicine entirely. Those roles are easily covered by non physicians at a much cheaper rate.
Combine Neuro/psych, with psych being a subspecialty of neuro.
Could always roll PM&R into ortho as well.
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