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.
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Graham Center Unequal Distribution of the US Primary Care Workforce
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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
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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
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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: Migration After Family Medicine Residency
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Using the 2009 American Medical Association Physician Masterfile, this one-pager notes that 56% of family medicine residents stay within 100 miles of where they graduate from residency.
View moreGraham Center: Projected Impact of the Primary Care Residency Expansion Program Using Historical Trends in Graduate Placement
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This one-pager covers the Primary Care Residency Expansion (PCRE) program that was created by the Health Resources and Services Administration in 2010 to help address the shortage of primary care physicians. If historical graduate placement trends for funded programs remain stable, the PCRE program would have a potential impact...
View moreGraham Center: The Changing Landscape of Primary Care HPSAs and the Influence on Practice Locations
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Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations were created to highlight areas of primary care shortage and direct incentives to physicians willing to practice in these areas. This article seeks to demonstrate the volatility of these geographies by examining the HPSA status of primary care physicians whose practice locations were...
View moreGraham Center: The Impact of Debt Load on Physician Assistants
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The central question of this investigation is: To what degree, if any, does physician assistant (PA) student loan debt impact the career decisions of PAs? A mixed-methods approach to this question found that PA students are heavily influenced by their clinical rotations, especially their preceptors, and that a few...
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Graham Center Primary Care Physician Mapper
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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 moreHRSA Primary Care Associations
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Check this HRSA listing for contact information for all of the State Primary Care Associations.
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