Metro/Nonmetro Counties Nonmetropolitan Counties Metropolitan Counties AHEC Regions Southern Regional AHEC Greensboro AHEC Mountain AHEC Charlotte AHEC South East AHEC (formerly Coastal AHEC) Area L AHEC Wake AHEC Eastern AHEC Northwest AHEC HSA Regions Western HSA I Region Piedmont HSA II Region Southern Piedmont HSA III Region Capitol HSA IV Region Cardinal HSA V Region… Read more »
Regional Profiles 2008
Metro/Nonmetro Counties Nonmetropolitan Counties Metropolitan Counties AHEC Regions Southern Regional AHEC Greensboro AHEC Mountain AHEC Charlotte AHEC South East AHEC (formerly Coastal AHEC) Area L AHEC Wake AHEC Eastern AHEC Northwest AHEC HSA Regions Western HSA I Region Piedmont HSA II Region Southern Piedmont HSA III Region Capitol HSA IV Region Cardinal HSA V Region… Read more »
Regional Profiles 2009
Metro/Nonmetro Counties Nonmetropolitan Counties Metropolitan Counties AHEC Regions Southern Regional AHEC Greensboro AHEC Mountain AHEC Charlotte AHEC South East AHEC (formerly Coastal AHEC) Area L AHEC Wake AHEC Eastern AHEC Northwest AHEC HSA Regions Western HSA I Region Piedmont HSA II Region Southern Piedmont HSA III Region Capitol HSA IV Region Cardinal HSA V Region… Read more »
Regional Profiles 2010
Metro/Nonmetro Counties Nonmetropolitan Counties Metropolitan Counties AHEC Regions Southern Regional AHEC Greensboro AHEC Mountain AHEC Charlotte AHEC South East AHEC (formerly Coastal AHEC) Area L AHEC Wake AHEC Eastern AHEC Northwest AHEC HSA Regions Western HSA I Region Piedmont HSA II Region Southern Piedmont HSA III Region Capitol HSA IV Region Cardinal HSA V Region… Read more »
Regional Profiles 2011
Metro/Nonmetro Counties Nonmetropolitan Counties Metropolitan Counties AHEC Regions Southern Regional AHEC Greensboro AHEC Mountain AHEC Charlotte AHEC South East AHEC (formerly Coastal AHEC) Area L AHEC Wake AHEC Eastern AHEC Northwest AHEC HSA Regions Western HSA I Region Piedmont HSA II Region Southern Piedmont HSA III Region Capitol HSA IV Region Cardinal HSA V Region… Read more »
Regional Profiles 2012
Metro/Nonmetro Counties Nonmetropolitan Counties Metropolitan Counties AHEC Regions Southern Regional AHEC Greensboro AHEC Mountain AHEC Charlotte AHEC South East AHEC (formerly Coastal AHEC) Area L AHEC Wake AHEC Eastern AHEC Northwest AHEC HSA Regions Western HSA I Region Piedmont HSA II Region Southern Piedmont HSA III Region Capitol HSA IV Region Cardinal HSA V Region… Read more »
Physician Supply and Distribution in NC: Geography, Demography, Policy
Geography, Demography, Policy (NCIOM) Describe the geographic distribution of physicians in NC Describe the age-gender structure of NC physicians Comment on policies in other states and changes in production of physicians Opportunities for growth and collaboration Comment on potential changes in NC
Addressing “Stress” in the Health Care Workforce
Human Resources for Health The term “stress” is used to describe conditions where supply trends move differently than they have in the past Workforce problems and solutions Past and current research themes Questions to be asked
Shaping Health Workforce Policy through Data-Driven Analyses
The Sheps/NC AHEC Collaboration The NC Health Professions Data System (HPDS) Lessons Learned The Challenge: Defining AHEC role in context of declining funding and limited national capacity for workforce planning Moving Forward: Technical Assistance
Aligning Graduate Medical Education with Surgical Workforce Needs
What changes are needed to better align GME policy to meet the surgical health needs of the US population? Projection of future supply of surgeons for 12 ACGME surgical specialties Cartographic analyses showing geographic distribution of surgery services Synthesis of lessons learned from state-based initiatives to expand GME training
The Status of Health Professions Diversity in North Carolina
Diversity and emerging workforce shortages Where do the data come from and what are strengths/limitations? What does health workforce diversity currently look like in the state? How has workforce diversity changed over time? Where are NC’s diverse practitioners educated? Data reflections: What does it all mean?
Meeting the Demands of a Transformed Health Care System
Retooling and Reconfiguring North Carolina’s Health Workforce to Meet the Demands of a Transformed Health Care System Why we need to retool and reconfigure the workforce Current challenges Future challenges What is needed to move toward a transformed system? Alignment of AHEC traditional mission with goals of health reform
Physicians in North Carolina: Sufficiency, Shortage or “Stress”
Current policy context What’s a shortage? Trends in supply and distribution Where do NC physicians come from? Why do we care where physicians trained? Who counts as primary care? If we need more people, who do we need? Health workforce planning in NC
Trends in Graduate Medical Education in North Carolina and the United States
GME is hot topic (and not just for policy wonks) North Carolina versus the United States — how do we compare? Residents trained in North Carolina – retention, specialty choice and distribution AHEC’s contribution to residency training in NC GME costs and funding Time to change the GME training paradigm?
Meeting the Needs of a Transformed Health System
Reconfiguring and Retooling the Workforce To Meet the Needs of a Transformed Health System Current policy context Health workforce planning in the past Health workforce planning in the future What can we learn from New Zealand?