Retaining health care providers, particularly those who have received financial incentives to practice in underserved areas, can be a challenge for many clinics and communities. The PCO, with the help of all of the partners in the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Partnership, has developed the “Healthcare Workforce Retention Toolkit”...
FIND is committed to connecting dentists and under-served communities with the resources needed to combat Iowa’s dental shortage, so that dental care is close to home for every Iowan. FIND can provide up to $100,000 in dental education financial assistance to new dentists dedicated to practicing in an under-served...
In the spring of 2012, directors of Primary Care Offices and other health workforce leaders in 11 states joined to form the Multi-State/NHSC Retention Collaborative. The Collaborative’s first-year goal is to document and understand the retention of clinicians within their states who serve in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC)...
This catalog of fact sheets, reports, and presentations offers a look at the health care workforce in Colorado.
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...
The American Academy of Family Physicians and its chapters represent more than 115,900 family physician, resident, and medical student members. This comprehensive site offers information on family medicine, training, and other issues.
The Bureau of Health Workforce programs help America build a health care workforce prepared and eager to improve the public health by expanding access to quality health services and working to achieve health equity. The Bureau of Health Workforce was created in May 2014, integrating HRSA workforce programs previously...
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.
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.
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...
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