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One of the groups most affected by the changes in the new health law are medical school students. When they graduate – and complete the hospital residencies that follow – they will begin practice under a system that will be significantly different than when they began college. With millions more people expected to have health insurance, demand for primary care physiciansis expected to go way up. Allison Fero, of Kaiser Health News, recently sat down individually with four medical students, including Marco Ferrera of The Florida State University College of Medicine, to discuss their career expectations, their concerns about the changing environment for doctors and their assessments of how the new law will affect the practice of medicine.