Authors: Evan Galloway, Erin Fraher, Nathan Tarr, Catherine Moore, Hugh H. Tilson Jr. In 1993, the General Assembly required the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors to submit an annual report to the legislature on the number of North Carolina (NC) medical school graduates going into primary care. Since 1994, the Cecil G. Sheps… Read more »
How Did Hurricane Helene Impact the Health Workforce in North Carolina?
Authors: Brianna Lombardi, Monica Jimenez, Erin Fraher In September 2024, Hurricane Helene caused significant damage across many counties in western North Carolina (NC), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designated disaster areas in 28 NC counties. In a previous blog post, we examined the size and composition of the health workforce in these counties prior… Read more »
Physicians Who Complete Both Medical School and Residency in North Carolina Are More Likely to Stay Here to Practice
Authors: Evan Galloway Our latest blog post examines the in-state retention of two cohorts of North Carolina medical school graduates (2015 and 2020) from our annual medical student tracking report who also completed residency in NC.
Is Access to Primary Care Clinicians Improving in North Carolina? A 2025 Update
Authors: Evan Galloway Our latest blog post updates the primary care clinician (PCC) index, which measures access to care in North Carolina using a ratio of 1,500 population to 1 primary care clinician (physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or certified nurse midwives) is set as the standard for measuring access.
2024 Health Workforce Update: Insights from the North Carolina Health Professions Data System
Authors:Abhi Joshi, Catherine Moore, Brooke Lombardi Our new blog post presents select findings from the 2024 data and includes an overview of changes to physician, oral health, pharmacy, and nursing workforces in active practice in North Carolina (NC). We also highlight a recent change to the HPDS supply visualization tool, which now allows users to… Read more »
North Carolina’s Certified Nurse Midwife Workforce is Growing, but the Workforce Remains Maldistributed
Authors: Brooke Lombardi, Connor Sullivan, Catherine Moore, and Erin Fraher In 2023, section 4.3 of Senate Bill 20 / North Carolina (NC) Session Law 2023-14 (Care for Women, Children, and Families Act, 2023) removed the requirement for Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs) to practice under the supervision of a physician if they meet specific criteria. This… Read more »
The Transition, Onboarding, and Integration of Newly Hired Faculty into Nursing Academia: A Scoping Review
Authors: Cheryl B. Jones PhD, RN, FAAN, Sinhye Kim PhD, RN, Mary Killela PhD, RN, Leah Morgan PhD, RN, Jill M. Forcina PhD, RN, CNE Product: Manuscript published in the Journal of Professional Nursing
Unpacking the Primary Care Clinician Index: Understanding How Changes in Population and Workforce Supply Affect Access to Primary Care in North Carolina
Authors: Erin Fraher, Brianna Lombardi, Evan Galloway Product: Manuscript published in the North Carolina Medical Journal
Outcomes of NC Medical School Graduates: How Many Stay in Practice in NC, in Primary Care, and in High Need Areas?
Authors: Evan Galloway, Hugh Tilson Product: Report
Trends in North Carolina’s Oral Health Workforce
Authors: Brooke Lombardi, Catherine Moore, Haley Simons, Evan Galloway, Erin Fraher Product: Poster presented at the 2025 AcademyHealth Annual Meeting The project manuscript is published in the North Carolina Medical Journal.
Trends in Workplace Violence for Health Care Occupations and Facilities over the Last 10 Years
Authors: Brianna Lombardi, Todd Jensen, Evan Galloway, Erin Fraher Product: Poster presented at the 2025 AcademyHealth Annual Meeting The project manuscript is published in Health Affairs Scholar.
Exploring the Effect of COVID-19 on Nurse Staffing in Hospitals
Authors: Erin Fraher, Connor Sullivan, Shweta Pathak, Colleen Tapen Product: Poster presented at the 2025 AcademyHealth Annual Meeting The project manuscript is published in Nursing Outlook.
The Workforce Outcomes of Physicians Completing Residency Training in North Carolina in 2017, 2018, and 2019
Product: Report Authors: Evan Galloway, Brianna Lombardi, Erin Fraher Read the report
Toward a Better Understanding of Primary Care Physician Career Typologies
Authors: Erin Fraher, Todd Jensen, Alberta Tran, Evan Galloway, Jasmine Weiss, Brianna Lombardi Product: Manuscript published in Medical Care
Is Access to Primary Care Clinicians Improving In North Carolina?
Product: NC Health Workforce blog post Authors: Evan Galloway Read the blog post