The Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies’ (The Center) mission is to measurably improve the performance of the health delivery enterprise of the national health care delivery system. With its exemplary depth of expertise, the Center will have a vital impact on the transformation of healthcare through research excellence, evidence...
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Graham Center: Trends in Physician Supply and Population Growth
The physician workforce has steadily grown faster than the U.S. population over the past 30 years, context that is often absent in conversations anticipating physician scarcity. Policy makers addressing future physician shortages should also direct resources to ensure specialty and geographic distribution that best serves population health.
View moreGraham Center Unequal Distribution of the US Primary Care Workforce
The United States is facing a primary care physician shortage, but the most pressing problem is uneven distribution, particularly in poor and rural communities. Providing adequate access to care for the nearly 30 million uninsured people living in these communities will require potent incentives and policy.
View moreGraham Center – Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines
With continued population aging trends, low annual birth rate, and expected health insurance expansion, it is vital that physician workforce policy be aimed at meeting population needs to deliver optimal primary care. To better understand trends in the primary care physician workforce, we have examined the growth of family...
View moreGraham Center State Workforce Projections
Using state and national data, the Robert Graham Center projects to 2030 the state PCP workforce necessary to maintain current primary care utilization rates, accounting for increased demand due to aging, population growth, and an increasingly insured population due to the Affordable Care Act.
View moreGraham Center Primary Care Physician Mapper
The Primary Care Physician Mapper illustrates the distribution of primary care physicians by state, county, or census tracts in metropolitan areas. The physician data source is the National Provider Identifier (NPI), maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Any provider who bills Medicare, Medicaid, or certain...
View moreMerritt Hawkins Surveys and White Papers
Merritt Hawkins conducts a variety of physician salary and compensation incentives surveys, as well as information on interesting healthcare trends across physician specialties, career satisfaction results and other trends relevant to physician recruiting.
View moreCEJKA Physician Recruitment Resources
This collection of surveys, case studies, webinars, and trend data is available for purchase from this national group.
View moreASPR Surveys
The Association of Staff Physician Recruiters offers this collection of surveys on recruitments processes, benchmarks, education, and other items.
View moreMGMA Physician Compensation and Productivity Reports
These benchmarking reports from the Medical Group Management Association include data across multiple indicators including specialty, geographic region, practice setting, years in specialty and method of compensation.
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