Correlation Between Medical School Debt and % of Primary Care Docs.

Only about 4% of students opt for a primary care residency..Most people don't realize that the bulk of US medical residents and interns training is paid for by CMS and the only "debt" that a student accrues would happen during medical school (vs residency).  A recent report by US news report on medical schools shows another interesting correlation. Schools with the highest rates of primary care providers http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/primary_care_residents also have the highest rates of debt ( and those with the lowest debt graduate the lowest % of primary care providers - in most cases). http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/debt

School	Primary Care		Rank Primary Care	Debt	Debt Rank
University of New England	63.00%		7	$205,014	121
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine	70.30%		2	$180,630	114
Michigan State University	80.50%		1	$171,752	106
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences (Kirksville)	51.00%		15	$176,958	113
Morehouse School of Medicine	65.00%		4	$168,449	102
Western University of Health Sciences	50.00%		22	$191,254	118
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine	55.00%		11	$165,833	101
Pikeville College	64.00%		6	$158,470	91
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine	61.00%		5	$158,000	89
Tufts University	45.00%		35	$192,162	119
Creighton University	44.00%		39	$194,548	120
University of Vermont	58.00%		9	$158,313	90
Touro University	56.00%		10	$156,000	88
Des Moines University	48.00%		24	$165,220	99
Oregon Health and Science University	46.60%		28	$170,000	103
George Washington University	43.00%		43	$188,200	117
Nova Southeastern University	50.00%		20	$162,148	94
University of Chicago (Pritzker)	43.00%		45	$175,809	111
Wright State University (Boonshoft)	46.00%		33	$160,750	92
Georgetown University	42.00%		50	$172,240	107
Ohio University	47.00%		26	$150,868	83
University of California--Irvine	38.00%		85	$112,793	25
University of Virginia	35.00%		101	$122,369	40
University of Alabama--Birmingham	39.10%		75	$101,682	12
University of South Florida	36.00%		99	$119,020	35
University of California--San Francisco	39.10%		76	$101,333	11
Vanderbilt University	30.70%		114	$120,000	38
Harvard University	37.30%		91	$103,663	14
Yale University	21.70%		121	$124,135	43
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor	35.20%		102	$111,139	22
University of Florida	35.00%		103	$107,589	17
Cornell University (Weill)	30.00%		116	$116,024	29
University of Texas Health Science Center--Houston	30.00%		118	$116,197	30
Dartmouth Medical School	32.60%		109	$109,688	20
Columbia University	28.00%		120	$113,146	26
Duke University	33.00%		108	$103,403	13
Washington University in St. Louis	33.30%		106	$101,191	10
Johns Hopkins University	33.20%		107	$94,717	7
University of Nevada--Reno	19.30%		122	$108,224	18
Stanford University	30.60%		115	$86,137	4
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Hebert)	30.00%		117	$0	1