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
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
Allied Health Vacancies and Health Workforce Diversity in NC
Overview of the NC HPDS Review of the fall 2011 NC allied health vacancy report Review of NC health workforce diversity (2009 data)
Health Workforce Diversity and Allied Health in NC
Overview of the NC HPDS and data sources Diversity and emerging workforce shortages 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?
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?
The Dental Workforce in North Carolina
Trends, Challenges and Opportunities Setting the policy context Trends in supply and distribution Demographic and practice characteristics Projections and implications
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?
Are We Preparing the Allied Health Workforce?
What will North Carolina need now and in the future? Rapid health system change is driving increase use of allied health workforce A more flexible use of workers is needed to improve care delivery and efficiency New health care roles need simultaneous change in payment, regulation and education to be sustained (this is the three… Read more »
Education Models to Cultivate the Rural Health Workforce
Health system is transforming; existing workers take on new roles There are imbalances in the geographic location, specialty and practice settings of health professionals New and existing workforce will shift from acute to ambulatory,community- and home-based settings Career ladders missing, have broken rungs