The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Purpose is to provide an overview of the lessons learned from collecting allied health workforce data: What have we learned? What has gone well and what hasn’t gone so well? How can you collect workforce data to shape allied health workforce policy in your state?
North Carolina Providers*: Supply and Distribution by Race (NCIOM)
Race of NC providers compared to NC population Rates of practicing in rural and undeserved areas by race Geographic distribution of underrepresented NC physicians compared to population *providers include physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
Creating a Healthy Economy and a Healthy Population
Why We Need to Pay Attention to the Rising Demand for Allied Health Workers in NC How to count allied health workers Why should policy makers care about the allied health care workforce? Allied health job bacancy tracking project What’s needed? Better coordination of allied health workforce development efforts
The Supply and Distribution of Psychiatrists in North Carolina
Pressing Issues in the Context of Mental Health Reform North Carolina’s physician supply compared to national context Psychiatrists: supply, education and distribution Child psychiatrists: supply and distribution Policy Considerations
The Dentist Workforce in North Carolina
Trends in the supply Geographic distribution Training location, demographic and practice characteristics Projections
The Move toward the Clinical Doctorate in the Allied Health Professions in North Carolina
Why discuss? What’s a clinical doctorate? Arguments for and against the clinical doctorate Lessons learned: the move to the PharmD Different Perspectives
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
The State of the Allied Health Workforce in North Carolina
Why study allied health workforce shortages? Challenges in estimating the supply of, and demand for, allied health professionals The allied health vacancy tracking project Moving forward—challenges and opportunities
The Dentist Workforce in North Carolina – UPDATED WITH 2007 DATA
Trends in supply Geographic distribution Training location, demographic and practice characteristics Updated Projections
The Dentist Workforce in North Carolina – UPDATED WITH 2009 DATA
Trends in supply Geographic distribution Training location, demographic and practice characteristics Updated Projections
The State of the Allied Health Workforce in North Carolina
Supply and demand data Linking allied health worforce shortages to economic development efforts The allied health vacancy tracking project Allied health workforce planning in the New World of Reform
One State’s Effort to Track the Social Accountability of Medical Education
Policy context and dilemmas Medical student tracking in NC: history, data sources, methods Findings: retention of NC medical students five years out Discussion and lessons learned Future directions
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
Allied Health Workforce Planning: What North Carolina Can Learn from New Zealand
Policy context of allied health What can NC learn from New Zealand? Allied health job vacancy tracking report: demand-side data Are We Creating Intelligence