The Medical Education Commission Report 2003: GME production renews physician supply.

: Louisiana data for the match entry into Graduate Medical Education, and the renewal of the practicing physician workforce, are essentially parallel to comparable data for the United States as a whole. The State of Louisiana Medical Education Commission offers reports and publications in the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society compiling yearly and trend data and analysis. The 2003 result of the match follows the trend of successful completion over the last five years. While Louisiana is similar in many comparable categories to the United States, the state is somewhat higher in primary care growth, now stabilized and leveling, as are total GME and total physicians. Relatively small changes may be baseline fluctuations, and not a trend of longer-term change. The GME system is remarkably stable and successful overall, though complex right down to individual variation.