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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Check this HRSA listing for contact information for all of the State Primary Care Associations.
Check this HRSA listing for contact information for all of the State Primary Care Offices.
This presentation offers a broad overview and background on social determinants of health, projected workforce shortages, health center employment, and other relevant issues in today’s health care environment.
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