Dr. Ariel Smits

President-Elect Ariel Smits, MD, Portland

Dr. Ariel Smits, a family practice medicine instructor from OHSU who conducted the survey, said that in addition to insurance rates, physicians also cited concerns about a lack of family time and strenuous on-call schedules as reasons they stopped - or planned to stop - delivering babies.

Ariel Smits, M.D.OMA DelegateOHSU, FP Department3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd.Portland, OR 97239Phone: 503-494-8311smitsa@ohsu.edu

Ariel Smits, M.D.Vice PresidentOHSU, FP Department3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd.Portland, OR 97239Phone: 503-494-8311smitsa@ohsu.edu

Vice President Ariel Smits, MD, MPH, Portland

Roger Chou, MD; Ariel K. Smits, MD, MPH; Laurie Hoyt Huffman, MS; Rongwei Fu, PhD; and P. Todd Korthuis, MD, MPH
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Dr. Smits: Oregon Health & Science University, Mail Code FM, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239.
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Roger Chou, Laurie Hoyt Huffman, Rongwei Fu, Ariel K. Smits, and P. Todd Korthuis
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R. Chou, L. H. Huffman, R. Fu, A. K. Smits, and P. T. Korthuis

The University of Arizona experience supports earlier research by Ariel Smits, M.D., M.P.H., clinical instructor of family medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University, and her colleagues.In March, they suggested that extending family medicine residency to four years would have a neutral or positive effect on student interest in the specialty.

Writing in "Residency Applicants' Perspectives on Family Medicine Residency Training Length" (PDF file: 5 pages / 143 KB.More about PDFs.) in the March Family Medicine, Smits reported that 77.2 percent of respondents to a 2004-2005 survey said "increasing training to four years would either make them more likely to choose family medicine or would not affect their decision."

President Elect ------ Ariel Smits, MD