Response to: "Family Medicine and Internal Medicine: Let Our Powers Combine!"

The primary care shortage in the United States is alarming.In his recent letter, Dr Snellings has suggested that the root of the problem is essentially the inability to recruit medical students into family medicine residency programs, and he proposed that returning to a combined family medicine/internal-medicine residency program model from the late 1990s would increase the primary care provider (PCP) pipeline.While reinvigorating this model may be worth exploring, this proposed solution has left me with more questions than hope.