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 …

P eople's interest in physician workforce planning has been cyclical. During the 1960s and
1970s a looming doctor shortage was feared. In response, federal and state intervention led …

Prologue: More than a decade ago, the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory
Committee asserted that the United States faced a future surplus of physicians because their …

The United States is not the only nation that struggles with the complex issues related to the
size, composition, and distribution of its physician workforce. Planning for and educating the …

In this issue of HSR, the article by Rittenhouse et al.(2004) calls into question two different
sources of information about physicians' decisions to leave clinical practice: data from the …

Richard Cooper's article in this issue ofJAMAtitled" Perspectives on the Physician Workforce
to the Year 2020" ignites controversy. 1 Cooper, extrapolating from physician staffing …

The current approach to the management of physician resources in Canada needs to be re-
examined by all concerned. Canada is about to enter a phase of accelerating depletion of …

The authors set out to review Canadian medical workforce policies for 1993 to 2003 and
assess if data existed in the 1990s that could have reversed the policy decision to curtail the …

US physician workforce forecasting: a tale of two states Page 4 US Physician Workforce
Forecasting: A Tale of Two States By Gaetano J. Forte, Senior Research Associate, CHWS, U …

Over the past twenty-five years the nation has struggled with a series of physician workforce
issues: determining the appropriate number of physicians needed and the appropriate …