The Sticky Wicket of Projecting Physician Workforce Needs

Author: Erin P. Fraher, PhD, MPP

Presentation to the National Health Policy Forum

March 4, 2016

 

Presentation Overview:

• The lure of the shortage rhetoric
• Why don’t workforce models agree?
• Case study: our workforce projection model
• Using models as tools to simulate policy change, rather than the “answer”
  • Understand effect of overlapping/shifting roles on workforce needs
  • Targeting GME by specialty and state
• Challenges and future directions

 

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