See also Rural and Remote Health Update
Health Care Access Primer Bowman May 2007 - no smoke and mirrors, real primary care
Hart G. RUCAs and Physician Location, AAMC Presentation, May 2006. http://www.aamc.org/workforce/pwrc06/hart.pdf .
Distribution: Index Concentrations of Physician Distribution - compare and contrast the various types that distribute to rural underserved and urban underserved locations. How do international medical graduate internal medicine physicians compare to family physicians? What does birth origin have to do with practice location?
Physicians in Poverty Discussion: Major Medical Center Locations - the distributions of physicians vary with increasing levels of poverty in the United States. This first work considers the locations of 71% of US physicians, those in major medical centers. Primary care levels are not well sustained with increasing poverty levels.
Five Periods of Health Policy and Physician Career Choice - the nation has distributed physicians and very effectively by health policy changes. The nation is now returning to an era not seen in 40 years.
Rural General Surgery from the Archives
Rural WONCA 2006 Seattle Presentations gathering together various links
MCAT and FP 2005 - scatterplot of MCAT scores 2000 - 2003 and FP 2005 Match Choices
Driving Difficulty or Distinction - The relationship between MCAT and failure rates or academic distinction rates quickly flattens. Increased admissions of students with higher MCAT scores changes outcomes very little in the students with average MCAT scores. However increased MCAT is related to less choice of family medicine, rural practice, and underserved location.
Comments Regarding the Future of Academic Medicine - This Milbank report outlined many of the changes needed in current medical education. The world is waiting.
Fitzhugh Mullan on international movements of physicians
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/17/1810
AAMC Testimony on Physician Workforce
http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/workforce/testimony/2006/051806.pdf
Mass Med Assoc Exec Summary 2006 Workforce Report
http://www.massmed.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NewsandPublications/ResearchReportsStudies/PhysicianWorkforceStudy/2006Workforce_exec_summary.pdf
Full 2006 Massachusetts Workforce report
http://www.massmed.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NewsandPublications/ResearchReportsStudies/PhysicianWorkforceStudy/2006Workforce_report.pdf
Ricketts and North Carolina Workforce
http://www.healthworkforce.unc.edu/documents/NCphysicians_121505.ppt
Michigan Workforce
http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2670/content.htm
Recent Studies of the Family Physician Workforce: Implications for Education and
Training (PDF file: 8 pages / 243 KB)
http://www.graham-center.org/PreBuilt/workforcestfm0406.pdf
Bob Phillips, MD, MSPH Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH Martey Dodoo, PhD
Perry Pugno, MD
STFM Spring Conference May 2006
From 2006 AAMC
Workforce Conference and Other Efforts
Physician Supply
Physician Supply Issues and Analysis Issues and Analysis (PDF)
Tom Ricketts, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services
Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Challenges of
Expanding Physician Supply (PDF)
Richard Cooper, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Leonard Davis Institute of Health
Economics, University of Pennsylvania
The Geographic
Distribution of Physicians Using RUCAs (PDF)
L. Gary Hart, Ph.D., Director and Principal Investigator, WWAMI Rural Health
Research Center
Which Medical Schools
and Residency Programs Train Rural Physicians? (PDF)
Frederick M. Chen, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Director, WWAMI Rural Health Research
Center
The Impact of
Osteopathic Medicine's Growth on Physician Workforce in the U.S. (PDF)
Stephen C. Shannon, D.O., M.P.H., President, American Association of Colleges of
Osteopathic Medicine
The Osteopathic
Physician Workforce: The Colleges and the Students (PDF)
Thomas Levitan, M. Ed., Vice President for Research and Application Services,
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
The Changing
Paradigm of Contemporary U.S. Allopathic Medical School Graduates' Career Paths:
Analysis of the 1997-2004 National AAMC Graduation Questionnaire Database
(PDF)
Donna Jeffe, Ph.D. Director, Health Behavior & Outreach Core, Siteman Cancer
Center, Division of Health Behavior Research, Washington University School of
Medicine
Women in the
Physician Workforce: Creating Work-Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians
(PDF)
Phyllis L. Carr, M.D., Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Boston University
School of Medicine
Four and
Five-Year Regional Medical Campuses: A Rational Response to Physician Manpower
Needs (PDF)
Michael Friedland, M.D., Vice President for Medical Programs and Senior
Associate Dean for Biomedical Programs, University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine at Florida Atlantic University
International
Medical School Graduates in the US: Background Data (PDF)
Edward Salsberg, M.P.A., Director, Center for Workforce Studies, AAMC
Preliminary
Results of Survey of Physicians Over 50: Current Activity and Retirement Factors
(PDF)
Clese Erikson, M.P.Aff., Senior Research Associate, Center for Workforce
Studies, AAMC
The Global Health
Workforce: Our Shared Challenges (PDF)
Timothy Evans, Ph.D., Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization
Birth Origins and Distribution Tables - the medical schools that graduate the most rural physicians, primary care physicians, underserved physicians and distributional physicians of all types admit more humble origin students - claiming medical school or graduate influences is not possible unless the impact of income and education barriers and age at medical school graduation is considered.
Flawed Physician Workforce Beliefs - alternative hypotheses have often not been explored in physician workforce studies
Flaws in the Concept of Controllable Lifestyle - students may pursue the urban lifestyle, not a less intensive lifestyle. Deteriorations in the intensity of medical training may explain lack of intense physician career selection
Family Medicine and Physician Distribution - not understanding family medicine and the students who choose family medicine is not understanding distribution
Physician Workforce Studies with a distributional focus