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From the Editor

The Woeful Neglect Of Health Care Workforce Issues

More than two decades ago the report of the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC) represented both the high-water mark for the science of physician workforce projection and the onset of a reaction against workforce planning of any sort. The GMENAC report of 1981 suggested that the nation had produced too many physicians. That conclusion, coupled with the pro-market, anti-planning mentality of the incoming Reagan administration, led to a long lapse of governmental and academic attention to physician workforce policy issues. Now, the subject of the health care workforce is making its way back on the public policy agenda, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart

Founding Editor

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