Cardiology Workforce Crisis

International medical graduates and the cardiology workforce.

Recent publications have expressed the view that there is a shortage of cardiologists and it is growing worse. Both an increasing demand and a diminishing supply of cardiologists have been projected. An increase in the number of international medical graduates (IMGs) who enter cardiology practice has been proposed as a remedy for a projected shortage. The IMGs have to overcome challenges includ...

Interventional Cardiology US Workforce: current challenges.

Are we heading into a workforce crisis?

Thirty-three years ago, George Engel (1) contended that all of medicine was in crisis. The crisis, he suggested, had its origin in medicine’s adherence to a model of disease defined solely in terms of “somatic parameters”—a model that was no longer adequate for the “scientific tasks and social responsibilities” of the profession. Speaking of psychiatry, he stated that our specialty had been fal...

Not just another primary care workforce crisis.

Letters Not just another primary care workforce crisis … There is a baffling disconnect in the position of Irish and Purvis on the primary care workforce crisis. 1 On the one hand, they say: 'The supply of newly qualified GPs is unlikely to match demand without international recruits and returners to the GP workforce.' On the other hand, many readers of this Journal will be astonished to learn ...

Health workforce in times of financial crisis.

Planning of health workforce is a complex issue even in times of stable socio-economic circumstances. Due to the multiple influences affecting it and due to the high costs of health workforce education and training, health workforce represents an important asset in any country. In contrast, as the demand for health services keeps growing, so does the demand for the different health professional...