SPECIAL REPORTS 139 Pre-existing policy and opinion have suggested that the maldistribution of specialists should be addressed by greatly increasing the number of trainees. Current projections suggest that a substantial excess of cardiologists will develop over the next few decades. Presently, in several sectors of the U.S., a surplus of cardiologists exists. It is our consensus that the traini...

Several manpower planning models are presented that exploit the longitudinal stability of manpower cohorts. The manpower planning process is described along with the problem of identifying and obtaining various types of longitudinal data. An infinite horizon linear program for calculating minimum cost manpower input plans is found to have a straightforward solution in a great many cases and to ...

nursing manpower plays an important role in care quality and health promotion. so any health care organization without an efficient nursing unit is not expected to survive for a long time. this study was conducted to estimate the number of the necessary nursing manpower for the selected hospitals according to the proposed model by the iran ministry of health.this research is a cross wardal stud...

Debates often arise about who is best suited to manage a healthcare organization. Therefore, we argue that an examination of the ability of healthcare organizations' chief executive officers (CEOs) to make strategic decisions is warranted. Is the most appropriate leader the medically educated CEO, whose training in patient care allows him or her to be most cognizant of the quality-of-care needs...