Website aims to bring in new generation of physicians

A new website called MedShow aims to convince young people to follow careers in medicine. (Source: "Project seeks to find more family doctors," Columbus Dispatch, Dec. 17, 2007.) The brainchild of Dr. Linda Stone, associate dean for student affairs at Ohio State University's medical school, and Deb Miller, a marketing expert, the website is supported by Ohio State and the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians. Other universities have also expressed interest in the site. According to Stone, predictions show a shortage of 85,000 physicians by 2020, and family medicine and general internal medicine are being hit particularly hard.