Yukon physician shortage taxes family doctors

Doctors from abroad: a cure for the physician shortage in America.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates there were 5,848 “primary medical health professional shortage areas” in the country in 2012 and that “it would take an additional 15,928 physicians to adequately meet the primary care medical needs of people in those areas,” according to cardiologist David J. Skorton, MD, president of Cornell University, in a Feb. 20, 2013 blog entry f...

The Dilemma of Physician Shortage and International Recruitment in Canada

The perception of physician shortage in Canada is widespread. Absolute shortages and relative discrepancies, both specialty-wise and in urban-rural distribution, have been a daunting policy challenge. International Medical Graduates (IMGs) have been at the core of mitigating this problem, especially as long as shortage of physicians in rural areas is concerned. Considering such recruitment as h...

A physician prescription for the nursing shortage.

In 2003, the Colorado Permanente Medical Group (CPMG), a 780-member, multispecialty physician group that provides ambulatory and hospital care principally in metropolitan Denver and Boulder, embarked upon a multifaceted program to leverage physician leadership to address the nursing shortage. Designated as the "Preferred Clinical Partner Program" (the PCP Program), CPMG sought to participate in...

Perceived shortage of family doctors in Quebec: can we do something about it?

While the public health care system is suffering from underfunding, this is not the only source of its problems. Current reforms, such as the computerization of patient files, the rationalization of drug consumption, and the integration of medical points of service, will have a negligible effect on service delivery as long as there continues to be too few family physicians to care for the popul...

Impending physician shortage needs decisive remediation.