Ten Year Projections for US Residency Positions: Will There be Enough Positions to Accommodate the Growing Number of U.S. Medical School Graduates?

Hayek, Sarah; Lane, Samantha; Fluck, Marcus; Hunsinger, Marie; Blansfield, Joseph; Shabahang, Mohsen

doi:10.1016/j.jsurg.2017.08.021

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“…Certain subspecialties, such as orthopedics, are, however, at greater risk to experience a shortage of residency positions. 9 Avoiding a physician shortage will necessitate a multi-faceted understanding of evolutionary transitions in medical education, regulatory and health care delivery.…”

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FSMB Census of Licensed Physicians in the United States, 2018

Young¹,

Chaudhry²,

Pei³

et al. 2019

Journal of Medical Regulation

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There are 985,026 physicians with Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degrees licensed to practice medicine in the United States and the District of Columbia, according to physician census data compiled by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). These qualified physicians graduated from 2,089 medical schools in 167 countries and are available to serve a U.S. national population of 327,167,434. While the percentage of physicians who are international medical graduates have remained relatively stable over the last eight years, the percentage of physicians who are women, possess a DO degree, have three or more licenses, or are graduates of a medical school in the Caribbean have increased by varying degrees during that same period. This report marks the fifth biennial physician census that the FSMB has published, highlighting key characteristics of the nation's available physician workforce, including numbers of licensees by geographic region and state, type of medical degree, location of medical school, age, gender, specialty certification and number of active licenses per physician. The number of licensed physicians in the United States has been growing steadily, due in part to an expansion in the number of medical schools and students during the past two decades, even as concerns of a physician shortage to meet health care demands persist. The average age of licensed physicians continues to increase, and more licensed physicians appear to be specialty certified, though the latter finding may reflect more comprehensive reporting. This census was compiled using the FSMB's Physician Data Center (PDC), which collects, collates and analyzes physician data directly from the nation's state medical and osteopathic boards and is uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive snapshot of information about licensed physicians. A periodic national census of this type offers useful demographic and licensure information about the available physician workforce that may be useful to policy makers, researchers and related health care organizations to better understand and address the nation's health care needs.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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FSMB Census of Licensed Physicians in the United States, 2018

Young¹,

Chaudhry²,

Pei³

et al. 2019

Journal of Medical Regulation

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“…While the total number of medical school graduates has continued to increase in recent years, the number of residency positions in ophthalmology has remained fairly stable. 13,[15][16][17] Increasing the number of ophthalmology residency slots is a logical step to address the projected shortage of ophthalmologists, but the effect would be delayed. Lee and associates point out that a decision to raise the number of residency positions by 20% would take more than two decades to effect a 10% change in the number of ophthalmologists in clinical practice.…”

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Factors Influencing Career Decisions and Satisfaction Among Newly Practicing Ophthalmologists

Gedde

Feuer

Crane

et al. 2022

American Journal of Ophthalmology

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“…There is a burgeoning number of new graduate medical education (GME) programs that have been accredited over this last decade [ 1 ]. This provides an opportunity to study how the introduction of residents into GME naïve settings can influence the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores of physician teaching hospitalists versus non-teaching hospitalists.…”

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The Impact of a New Internal Medicine Residency Program on Patient Satisfaction Scores for Teaching Hospitalist Faculty Compared to Non-teaching Hospitalist

Walker¹,

Delzell²

2021

Cureus

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Introduction: The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) is a national survey sent to patients to measure their inpatient experience. Graduate medical education programs may affect a sponsoring institution in various ways, but there has been little research into the effect of teaching hospitalist faculty on HCAHPS scores in a community-based hospital. The aim of the current study is to evaluate if the introduction of internal medicine resident physicians would affect the HCAHPS scores of patients admitted by hospitalist faculty physicians.Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of anonymous patient satisfaction survey data for internal medicine hospitalist teams from January 2019 to December 2019. Data were retrieved from the Press Ganey database. We compared two groups: teaching hospitalists (N = 12) and non-teaching hospitalists (N = 34). Data were divided into two time periods: January to June (pre-residents) and July to December (postresidents).Results: From January to June (pre-residents), 646 HCAHPS surveys were returned. For the post-resident cohort (July to December), a total of 487 surveys were returned. The "Recommend" domain, showed a significant improvement in the mean pre-resident to post-resident (57% to 69%; p = 0.0351).Conclusion: There was a significant increase in the mean rating of the "Recommend" hospital domain for the teaching hospitalists when compared to the non-teaching after the addition of a new internal medicine residency program.

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Ten Year Projections for US Residency Positions: Will There be Enough Positions to Accommodate the Growing Number of U.S. Medical School Graduates?

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

FSMB Census of Licensed Physicians in the United States, 2018

FSMB Census of Licensed Physicians in the United States, 2018

Factors Influencing Career Decisions and Satisfaction Among Newly Practicing Ophthalmologists

The Impact of a New Internal Medicine Residency Program on Patient Satisfaction Scores for Teaching Hospitalist Faculty Compared to Non-teaching Hospitalist

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