Increasing the Rural Physician Workforce: A Potential Role for Small Rural Medical School Campuses

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Crump ◽  
R. Steve Fricker ◽  
Craig H. Ziegler ◽  
David L. Wiegman
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Physician Workforce ◽  
Rural Physician

scholarly journals FSMB Census of Licensed Physicians in the United States, 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Young ◽  
Humayun J. Chaudhry ◽  
Xiaomei Pei ◽  
Katie Arnhart ◽  
Michael Dugan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Physician Workforce ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
State Medical Boards

ABSTRACT There are 985,026 physicians with Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degrees licensed to practice medicine in the United States and the District of Columbia, according to physician census data compiled by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). These qualified physicians graduated from 2,089 medical schools in 167 countries and are available to serve a U.S. national population of 327,167,434. While the percentage of physicians who are international medical graduates have remained relatively stable over the last eight years, the percentage of physicians who are women, possess a DO degree, have three or more licenses, or are graduates of a medical school in the Caribbean have increased by varying degrees during that same period. This report marks the fifth biennial physician census that the FSMB has published, highlighting key characteristics of the nation's available physician workforce, including numbers of licensees by geographic region and state, type of medical degree, location of medical school, age, gender, specialty certification and number of active licenses per physician. The number of licensed physicians in the United States has been growing steadily, due in part to an expansion in the number of medical schools and students during the past two decades, even as concerns of a physician shortage to meet health care demands persist. The average age of licensed physicians continues to increase, and more licensed physicians appear to be specialty certified, though the latter finding may reflect more comprehensive reporting. This census was compiled using the FSMB's Physician Data Center (PDC), which collects, collates and analyzes physician data directly from the nation's state medical and osteopathic boards and is uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive snapshot of information about licensed physicians. A periodic national census of this type offers useful demographic and licensure information about the available physician workforce that may be useful to policy makers, researchers and related health care organizations to better understand and address the nation's health care needs.

The Physician Workforce: A Medical School Dilemma

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas L. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Physician Workforce

scholarly journals The Effect of a Community-Based Medical School on the State and Local Physician Workforce

2018 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie P. Phillips ◽  
Andrea L. Wendling ◽  
Carolyn A. Fahey ◽  
Brian E. Mavis
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
The State ◽  
Physician Workforce ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Local Physician ◽  
State And Local

scholarly journals Family Medicine Training in Lesotho: A Strategy of Decentralized Training for Rural Physician Workforce Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bryden ◽  
Mariel Bryden ◽  
Jonathan Steer-Massaro ◽  
Sebaka Malope
Keyword(s):  
Family Medicine ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Physician Workforce ◽  
District Hospitals ◽  
Medical Discipline ◽  
Rural Physician ◽  
Health Alliance

Family medicine is a relatively new but rapidly expanding medical discipline in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specialization in family medicine is an effective means for building and retaining a highly skilled rural physician workforce in low- and middle-income countries. The Lesotho Boston Health Alliance Family Medicine Specialty Training Program is the first and only postgraduate family medicine program and the only accredited postgraduate training program in the Kingdom of Lesotho. Lesotho has unique challenges as a small mountainous enclave of South Africa with one of the lowest physician-to-patient ratios in the world. Most health professionals are based in the capital city, and the kingdom faces challenging health problems such as high human immunodeficiency virus prevalence, high maternal mortality, and malnutrition, as well as increasing burdens of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. In response to these health crises and the severe shortage of health professionals, Lesotho Boston Health Alliance partnered with the Lesotho Ministry of Health in 2008 to introduce family medicine as a new specialty in order to recruit home and retain Basotho doctors. Family medicine training in Lesotho uses a unique decentralized, non-university-based model with trainees posted at rural district hospitals throughout the country. While family medicine in Lesotho is still in the early stages of development, this model of decentralized training demonstrates an effective strategy to develop the rural health workforce in Lesotho, has the potential to change the physician workforce and health care system of Lesotho, and can be a model for physician training in similar environments.

Implications of an Aging Rural Physician Workforce

2019 ◽  
Vol 381 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Skinner ◽  
Douglas O. Staiger ◽  
David I. Auerbach ◽  
Peter I. Buerhaus
Keyword(s):  
Physician Workforce ◽  
Rural Physician

Nevada Physician Workforce Shortage and the Inefficient Retention of Nevada Medical School Graduates

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (sup2) ◽  
pp. 21-22
Author(s):  
Matthew Shoemaker ◽  
Savannah Spataro ◽  
Weldon Havins
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Physician Workforce ◽  
Workforce Shortage

scholarly journals Medical School Programs to Increase the Rural Physician Supply: A Systematic Review and Projected Impact of Widespread Replication

2008 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard K. Rabinowitz ◽  
James J. Diamond ◽  
Fred W. Markham ◽  
Jeremy R. Wortman
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Physician Supply ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Rural Physician
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