INTRODUCTION The Weeneebayko Health Ahtuskaywin (WHA) is an Aboriginal regional health authority serving a large remote region on the west coast of James Bay. The physicians are all paid on a non-fee-for-service basis. There are periods of acute shortage, periods of relative stability and periods when much of the care is provided by locum physicians. As a closed system, it is ideal for the inve...

BACKGROUND In many countries, financial assistance is awarded to physicians who settle in an area that is designated as a shortage area to prevent unequal accessibility to primary health care. Today, however, policy makers use fairly simple methods to define health care accessibility, with physician-to-population ratios (PPRs) within predefined administrative boundaries being overwhelmingly fav...

Today’s digital and print geriatrics news are citing, almost daily, the overall workforce shortage being experienced in United States. When we look specifically at health care, it reflects what is occurring general workforce. Within I want to focus on physicians. There limited studies physician workforce; however, there many projections of shortages, based forecasting models, by 2030. In terms ...

In this expression, the product atctSt denotes the projected supply in year t of fulltime-equivalent (FTE) physicians in patient care. Component St denotes the number of physicians projected to be alive in year t, component at is the fraction of those physicians who are projected to be professionally active in year t, and component ct is the fraction of the professionally active number of FTE p...

The narrative review was designed to investigate potential factors that contribute the shortage of primary care and specialty physician workforce in Sindh, Pakistan, how disparity contributes proliferation medical quackery across province. There are serious consequences for patients, putting additional strain on Sindh's healthcare system. Pakistan is one many countries where demand doctors outp...

Answers Needed We all have a stake in the size of the physician workforce. With too few physicians, access to care will be compromised; with too many, there will be strong pressures to overconsume health services. Increasing the production of U.S.-trained physicians by expanding physical resources of medical schools and creating new residency and fellowship positions will be costly and will hav...