Cardiology’s Workforce Shortage

Can training reduce the rural workforce shortage?

Cardiology's workforce shortage: implications for patient care and research.

The common wisdom at the end of the 20th century was that the United States was training too many specialists, including cardiologists.1 By 2001, however, there was increasing evidence that the supply of cardiologists was not meeting the growing demand. That year, as presidentelect of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), I appointed a task force to evaluate cardiology workforce. The task f...

United States registered nurse workforce report card and shortage forecast.

Registered nurses (RNs) play a critical role in health care delivery. With an aging US population, health care demand is growing at an unprecedented pace. Using projected changes in population size and age, the authors developed demand and supply models to forecast the RN job shortage in each of the 50 states. Letter grades were assigned based on projected RN job shortage ratios. The number of ...

Cardiology workforce: there's already a shortage, and it's getting worse!

GP perceptions of workforce shortage in a rural setting.

INTRODUCTION Currently Australia is experiencing a rural medical workforce shortage, especially among GPs. Strategies aimed at improving this shortage have generally been directed at small and remote rural communities (RRMA 4-7); however, longstanding GP shortages also continue in large (RRMA 3) rural communities. The key to the understanding the rural workforce is the perceptions of GPs themse...