Planning and managing the physician workforce

Planning and managing the physician workforce

National planning and management of the physician workforce is a multifaceted, difficult, and even controversial activity. It is an important subset of overall health workforce planning and management, which contributes to a country's having an effective and efficient health care system. This commentary builds on a new survey of specialty considerations by Israeli medical students early in thei...

Local Area Physician Workforce Planning Model Pilot

Physician workforce planning tools are needed to address the adequacy of the nation’s physician workforce to meet its health needs. Since health care is an inherently local phenomenon, physician supply and demand need to be understood in the local area context. Therefore, we seek to build a Local Area Physician Workforce Planning Model that emphasizes a local perspective. To that end, we are de...

Managing a national radiation oncologist workforce: a workforce planning model.

PURPOSE The specialty of radiation oncology has experienced significant workforce planning challenges in many countries. Our purpose was to develop and validate a workforce-planning model that would forecast the balance between supply of, and demand for, radiation oncologists in Canada over a minimum 10-year time frame, to identify the model parameters that most influenced this balance, and 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...