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Physician Workforce

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Analyzing Cause And Effect In The U.S. Physician Workforce

At the risk of offending the algebraically challenged, one can describe the surplus or shortage of physicians in some future year t with the following compact equation:

In this expression, the product a_tc_tS_t denotes the projected supply in year t of full-time-equivalent (FTE) physicians in patient care. Component S_t denotes the number of physicians projected to be alive in year t, component a_t is the fraction of those physicians who are projected to be professionally active in year t, and component c_t is the fraction of the professionally active number of FTE physicians in year t . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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