Table 1.

Specialty Choice and Likelihood of Working with Medicaid and Uninsured Patients by Physician Race/Ethnicity

Outcome/scenario	White	Asian/Pacific Islander	Latino	African- American
(1) Proportion of medical students entering primary care residency fields: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Family Medicine, or Medicine-Pediatrics	0.429	0.584	0.549	0.548
(2) Proportion of final residents in primary care programs NOT entering subspecialist training	0.489	0.398	0.502	0.578
(3) Percentage of patients with Medicaid or no health insurance, by race/ethnicity of physician	0.125	0.208	0.281	0.264
(4) Overall probability of an incoming medical student becoming a PCP to Medicaid and uninsured patients	0.0261	0.0483	0.0773	0.0837

Notes: Row (1) shows the proportion of medical students entering primary care residency fields, by race/ethnicity based on 2011-2014 data from the ACGME. Row (2) shows the proportion of 3rd year residents in these fields who did not enter subspecialist fellowship after residency. Row (3) shows the sum of the percentage of Medicaid patients plus the percentage of uninsured patients being cared for physicians of different races based on an analysis of the 2010 Medical Expenditure Survey (Marrast 2013); our calculation assumes that this proportion is roughly equivalent to the likelihood that a physician of a given race practices in a safety net setting