Reports Warn of Primary Care Shortages

Workforce crisis in primary healthcare worldwide: Hungarian example in a longitudinal follow-up study

“…The chronic shortage of doctors in the primary healthcare sector owing to low pay, restricted opportunities for training or career progression and poor working conditions has been a well-known fact for a long time,70 71 but in the last decade, an exponential increase in vacant GP posts was observed in different countries. The Pulse magazine survey of 860 GPs in May 2017 found that 12.2% of positions were currently vacant in England, an increase from 2.1% in 2011 when Pulse started collecting these data 72.…”

Workforce crisis in primary healthcare worldwide: Hungarian example in a longitudinal follow-up study

“…The chronic shortage of doctors in the primary healthcare sector owing to low pay, restricted opportunities for training or career progression and poor working conditions has been a well-known fact for a long time,70 71 but in the last decade, an exponential increase in vacant GP posts was observed in different countries. The Pulse magazine survey of 860 GPs in May 2017 found that 12.2% of positions were currently vacant in England, an increase from 2.1% in 2011 when Pulse started collecting these data 72.…”

Impact of a Targeted Rural and Underserved Track on Medical Student Match Into Family Medicine and Other Needed Workforce Specialties

“…T he shortage of primary care providers in the United States is magnified in rural areas. 1 Although 19.3% of the US population lives in rural areas, 8 only about 11% of physicians work in rural settings. 9 The demand for rural physicians is likely to grow as the rural work force ages and approaches retirement.…”

“…More than other types of primary care physicians, family physicians are the foundation for care in rural areas. 1 There are also critical shortages of other specialties such as general surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine, and psychiatry in rural America. [2][3][4][5][6][7] This study assessed student participation in the University of Washington School of Medicine's (UWSOM) Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST) program as a predictor for family medicine (FM) and needed workforce specialty residency match.…”

Concerns Regarding Resource Use and Outcomes in Subsets of Clinicians

“…In the current environment with an increasing prevalence of medically complex patients and rapidly rising health care costs, the important role of PCPs in the outpatient setting to lower costs and to keep patients out of the hospital cannot be overstated. The physician shortage in the United States has been especially impactful to primary care and is expected to worsen . The United States has much work to do to build up our PCP support to the level of many other developed countries to improve health care outcomes .…”

Workforce crisis in primary healthcare worldwide: Hungarian example in a longitudinal follow-up study

“…The chronic shortage of doctors in the primary healthcare sector owing to low pay, restricted opportunities for training or career progression and poor working conditions has been a well-known fact for a long time,70 71 but in the last decade, an exponential increase in vacant GP posts was observed in different countries. The Pulse magazine survey of 860 GPs in May 2017 found that 12.2% of positions were currently vacant in England, an increase from 2.1% in 2011 when Pulse started collecting these data 72.…”

Impact of a Targeted Rural and Underserved Track on Medical Student Match Into Family Medicine and Other Needed Workforce Specialties

“…T he shortage of primary care providers in the United States is magnified in rural areas. 1 Although 19.3% of the US population lives in rural areas, 8 only about 11% of physicians work in rural settings. 9 The demand for rural physicians is likely to grow as the rural work force ages and approaches retirement.…”

“…More than other types of primary care physicians, family physicians are the foundation for care in rural areas. 1 There are also critical shortages of other specialties such as general surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine, and psychiatry in rural America. [2][3][4][5][6][7] This study assessed student participation in the University of Washington School of Medicine's (UWSOM) Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST) program as a predictor for family medicine (FM) and needed workforce specialty residency match.…”

Concerns Regarding Resource Use and Outcomes in Subsets of Clinicians

“…In the current environment with an increasing prevalence of medically complex patients and rapidly rising health care costs, the important role of PCPs in the outpatient setting to lower costs and to keep patients out of the hospital cannot be overstated. The physician shortage in the United States has been especially impactful to primary care and is expected to worsen . The United States has much work to do to build up our PCP support to the level of many other developed countries to improve health care outcomes .…”

Workforce crisis in primary healthcare worldwide: Hungarian example in a longitudinal follow-up study

“…The chronic shortage of doctors in the primary healthcare sector owing to low pay, restricted opportunities for training or career progression and poor working conditions has been a well-known fact for a long time,70 71 but in the last decade, an exponential increase in vacant GP posts was observed in different countries. The Pulse magazine survey of 860 GPs in May 2017 found that 12.2% of positions were currently vacant in England, an increase from 2.1% in 2011 when Pulse started collecting these data 72.…”

Impact of a Targeted Rural and Underserved Track on Medical Student Match Into Family Medicine and Other Needed Workforce Specialties

“…T he shortage of primary care providers in the United States is magnified in rural areas. 1 Although 19.3% of the US population lives in rural areas, 8 only about 11% of physicians work in rural settings. 9 The demand for rural physicians is likely to grow as the rural work force ages and approaches retirement.…”

“…More than other types of primary care physicians, family physicians are the foundation for care in rural areas. 1 There are also critical shortages of other specialties such as general surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine, and psychiatry in rural America. [2][3][4][5][6][7] This study assessed student participation in the University of Washington School of Medicine's (UWSOM) Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST) program as a predictor for family medicine (FM) and needed workforce specialty residency match.…”

Concerns Regarding Resource Use and Outcomes in Subsets of Clinicians

“…In the current environment with an increasing prevalence of medically complex patients and rapidly rising health care costs, the important role of PCPs in the outpatient setting to lower costs and to keep patients out of the hospital cannot be overstated. The physician shortage in the United States has been especially impactful to primary care and is expected to worsen . The United States has much work to do to build up our PCP support to the level of many other developed countries to improve health care outcomes .…”