AAMC's Position on the Physician Shortage
The Physician Shortage
and Health Care Reform (PDF, July 2009)
AAMC Calls for
30 Percent Increase in Medical School Enrollment (News
Release - June 19, 2006)
AAMC Statement
on the Physician Workforce (PDF - Position
Statement - June 2006)
Questions and Answers
About the AAMC's New Physician Workforce Position (PDF - June 2006)
Graduate Medical Education Reforms
AAMC-Backed
Bill to Improve Access, Reduce Physician Shortage Introduced
in Congress (News Release - May 5, 2009)
AAMC
Support and Thank you letter for the "Resident Physician Shortage
Reduction Act of 2009" (PDF) May 2009
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction
Act Press Briefing
(podcast, 24 mins.)
Resident Physician Shortage
Reduction Act of 2009
(PDF, Summary - July 2009)
Medical School Expansion
Medical School Enrollment
Continues to Rise to Meet Physician Need (News Release
- October 20, 2009)
U.S. Medical School
Enrollment Projected to Rise 21 Percent by 2012 (News
Release - May 1, 2008)
U.S. Medical
Schools Face Uncharted Territory in Expansion Efforts (News Release - Jan. 31, 2008)
Medical
School Expansion: Challenges and Strategies (Report
- Jan. 2008)
Analysis in
Brief: Challenges and Strategies of Medical School Expansion (PDF) - Jan. 2008
LCME
- Applicant, Candidate, and Accredited Medical Schools |
Information and Data
How
to Fix The Doctor Shortage—The Wall Street Journal,
Op-Ed by Darrell Kirch - January 4, 2010)
Doctor
Shortage Ahead—WUSA 9-TV, November 21, 2009
Heart
Surgeon Shortage Predicted—U.S. News & World
Report, July 28, 2009
Why is There a Shortage of Primary
Care Doctors? (PDF, July 2009)
2009 State Physician Workforce Data Book (PDF - Nov. 2009)
2008
Physician Specialty Data (PDF) Nov. 2008
The
Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections Through
2025 (PDF - Oct. 2008)
JAMA Commentary: Confronting
the Complexity of the Physician Workforce Equation (News
Release - June 11, 2008)
Diversity
in the Physician Workforce: Facts & Figures 2006
Resources
AAMC Center for Workforce
Studies
Health
Workforce Information Center
The online repository provides physician workforce stakeholders
with the latest information on: health workforce programs
and funding sources; workforce data, research, and policy;
educational opportunities and models; and news and events.
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Key Data
2009 State Physician Workforce Data Book (PDF - Nov. 2009)
2008
Physician Specialty Data (PDF - Nov. 2008)
The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections
Through 2025 (PDF - Oct. 2008)
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