On Workforce Policy, Consensus Is Hard To Find

Patient-centered Medical Homes and Access to Services for New Primary Care Patients

“…Factors driving primary care provider supply and distribution are complex with a lack of consensus in how best to estimate the workforce requirements of future physicians. [37][38][39][40][41][42][43] Accounting for population growth, aging, and the current rate of production of primary care physicians, the projected national shortage of primary care physicians by 2025 is over 35,000. 29,44 Given this, many look to innovative primary care models, such as PCMH, to meet these projected increases in demands with the existing workforce.…”

The Pathologist Workforce in the United States: II. An Interactive Modeling Tool for Analyzing Future Qualitative and Quantitative Staffing Demands for Services

“…49 We must consider the impact of new, innovative, and even disruptive technologies, [50][51][52][53] delegation with new self-contained kits, and shifts of some current tasks to nonphysician staff who do not have or need the full set of skills that pathologists command. 54 As more medicine is practiced in the patient's home, eg, glucose monitoring, pathologists will, most likely, be increasingly responsible for ensuring the accuracy of point-of-care tests and for reporting to the health care team for possible therapeutic intervention. In the future, pathologists will have to expand their interaction with patients or treating clinicians 44,49 (including in some states by having legislative prohibitions from speaking with patients removed 55 ) to better influence patient outcomes.…”

Recruitment and Retention of Community Health Center Primary Care Physicians post MA Health Care Reform: 2008 vs. 2013 Physician Surveys

“…While Title VII funding for training primary care physicians has been successful in increasing provider supply, many of these new clinicians are ultimately choosing nonprimary care careers. 15 In our 2008 survey of PCPs in Massachusetts CHCs, we sought to understand the decision-making in choosing to practice in a CHC-studying both recruitment and retention. 16 The current study aimed to understand the impact that local and national health care reform efforts may be having on recruitment and retention of PCPs compared with 2008 results.…”