Many have heard of the rise of drug-resistant infections. But few know about an issue that's making this threat even scarier in the United States: the shortage of specialists capable of diagnosing and treating those infections.
Infectious diseases represent one of just two medicine sub-specialities that routinely do not fill all of their training spots every year in the National Resident Matching Programme; the other is nephrology. Between 2009 and 2017, the number of programmes filling all of their training positions for adult infectious diseases dropped by more than 40 per cent.
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