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)...
CHI Colorado Health Care Workforce Resources
This catalog of fact sheets, reports, and presentations offers a look at the health care workforce in Colorado.
MTSU – Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies
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...
AAFP Medical School & Residency Resources
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.
HRSA – Bureau of Health Workforce
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...
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.
Graham 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.
Graham 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...
Graham 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.
Graham Center: Migration After Family Medicine Residency
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.