Present Projections of Physician Production

Funding the future

“…This came to be known as the Bane Report, and it predicted a deficiency of wellqualified physicians, if the number of medical students was not increased. The resulting government subsidies 3 would double the number of graduates over the next 23 years: from 6,900 in 1959 to 14,144 in 1982. 4 This growth came to a halt in 1981, after the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC) projected a surplus of 145,000 physicians by the year 2000.…”