Physician Workforce Shortages

The Use of Telemedicine to Address Access and Physician Workforce Shortages.

The use of telemedicine technologies by primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists (henceforth referred to as "pediatric physicians") has the potential to transform the practice of pediatrics. The purpose of this policy statement is to describe the expected and potential impact that telemedicine will have on pediatric physicians' efforts to ...

MediData: the growing physician workforce.

The Israeli anesthesiology physician workforce.

BACKGROUND Anesthesiology is a vital specialty that permits the safe and humane performance of painful procedures. Most Israeli anesthesiologists are immigrants, while only a minimal number of Israeli medical school graduates enter the specialty. Unfortunately, the supply of immigrant physicians is declining due to falling immigration rates. OBJECTIVES To examine the current Israeli anesthesi...

The Rural Emergency Physician Workforce

One of the primary challenges of rural emergency medicine (EM) is assembling an appropriate workforce to meet the needs of individual communities. Because rural emergency departments (EDs) vary greatly in patient volume, geographic isolation and acuity, finding the best mix of ED clinicians and sub-specialists for the individual site can be difficult. This task requires understanding current st...

hysical Therapy Workforce in the United States : orecasting Nationwide Shortages

P 2 c bjective: To examine current and future physical therapy (PT) job surplus/shortage rends across the United States. esign: Forecast models and grading methodology previously published for nursing were sed to evaluate individual state PT job shortages from 2008 to 2030. etting: Not applicable. articipants: Not applicable. ethods: The forecast model used to project PT job supply and demand a...