The nation׳ s physician workforce and future challenges
A Grover, JM Orlowski, CE Erikson - The American journal of the medical …, 2016 - Elsevier
There is much debate about the adequacy of the US physician workforce and projections of
its future size, distribution and composition. Beginning with 3 observations about the
workforce we believe are largely not subject to dispute, we address the debate by providing
an overview of the current state of the workforce and Graduate Medical Education in the
United States; a brief history of both calls for graduate medical education reform since 1910
and the recent, intense debate about the reliability of workforce projections; and a …
its future size, distribution and composition. Beginning with 3 observations about the
workforce we believe are largely not subject to dispute, we address the debate by providing
an overview of the current state of the workforce and Graduate Medical Education in the
United States; a brief history of both calls for graduate medical education reform since 1910
and the recent, intense debate about the reliability of workforce projections; and a …