The number of physician vacancies increased by 40% last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recently released study by the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment.
California, Florida and Texas are the three states expected to have the greatest estimated physician shortage by 2030, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Library of Medicine.
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Physician Retraining & Reentry was recently featured in an article by the California Health Care Foundation on programs that help experienced physicians return to practice to ease provider shortages in low-income communities.
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One of the country’s top chief medical officers gave his clinical care trends for 2022, and – not surprisingly – predicted that the physician shortage would become even more acute.
Dr. Eric Eskioglu, chief medical … Read More
Dr. Leonard Glass, a Physician Retraining & Reentry co-founder, says the idea for PRR began when he thought about “recycling” the potential pool of hundreds of thousands of physicians who were retired, near retirement or … Read More
Looking back to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, one Chicago-based physician can clearly see how valuable “redeployment” of family and primary care physicians was to both the frontline health care of patients and preventative … Read More
By now, Dr. Lorna Breen’s story has become a rallying tale for despondent and burned-out physicians being pushed past the edge during the pandemic. After the New York emergency room physician who treated COVID-19 patients … Read More
The Association of American Medical College’s oft-cited annual physician shortage report squarely places the cause for the growing physician shortfall on more physicians leaving practice due to retirement or burnout in tandem with a growing … Read More
Noting the inequities exposed in U.S. health care by the COVID-19 pandemic, a California Health Report opinion article says that the physician shortage will only exacerbate the future health of our nation. Growing minority populations … Read More
