News Article Archive

Explore workforce issues through nationwide news 



Clinician Training

UW-Madison Program Places Med Students in Milwaukee’s Underserved Communities WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio, 2018

How EHRs, telemedicine slash barriers to team learning in med ed AMA Wire, 2018

The Case for Debt-Free Medical Degrees Health Affairs, 2018

Myths and Facts: The Physician Shortage American Association of Medical Colleges, 2017

Expanding the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program to General Surgery, A Proposal to Address the National Shortage of General Surgeons in the United States JAMA, 2017

Medical Expert : “Need a Doctor? Find One While You Still Can. What One Medical School Is Doing to Address the Shortage for Rural America.” New York Institute of Technology, 2017

Report: Nurse Education Demo Project Good for Primary Care MedPage Today, 2017

Carle Illinois College of Medicine to open July 2018 The Daily Illini, 2017 

Med schools aim to train new breed of physician Modern Healthcare, 2017

Why Hospitals Are Pushing For More Nurses To Get Bachelor’s Degrees HuffPost, 2017

Nursing degrees increasing, but not on track to meet goal for acute care Reuters, 2017

Expansion of the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program Government Accountability Office, 2017 

Howard Marklein: H.O.P.E bill expands addiction specialist training La Crosse Tribune, 2017 

Senators Want to Address Doctor Shortage With New Bill U.S. News, 2017 

Lawmakers back legislation addressing Nevada’s doctor shortage Las Vegas Review Journal, 2017 

Teaching health centers vital to solving physician shortage in Iowa The Des Moines Register, 2017 


Recruitment, Retention, & Sustainability

Researchers Investigate Primary Care Professional Burnout American Academy of Family Physicians, 2018

International Medical Graduates – A Critical Component of the Global Health Workforce JAMA, 2018

What are effective approaches for recruiting and retaining rural primary care health professionals? Academy Health, 2018

Surge in DO students could help ease physician shortage Chicago Business, 2018

As Wisconsin tries to lure young adults, how do certain communities succeed? UW-Madison, 2018

Recruiting Rural Healthcare Providers Today: A Systematic Review of Training Program Success and Determinants of Geographic Choices Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2017

Addressing Quadruple Aim, Physician Burnout Key to Risk Success RevCycle Intellicence, 2017

US Physician Workforce is Getting Old, Fast HealthLeaders Media, 2017

Getting into Medical School in the U.S. is Becoming Harder U.S. News, 2017 

Professional Satisfaction and the Career Plans of US Physicians Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2017

The Physician Gap: How we can encourage US physicians-in-training to choose primary care Brown Political Review, 2017 

Explore: How many young doctors does your state retain after residency? STAT, 2017 

2017 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives Merritt Hawkins, 2017 

New doctor recruiting on the verge of a 'feeding frenzy' Fierce Healthcare, 2017 

Why America Needs Foreign Medical Graduate The New York Times, 2017 

Physician Burnout Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2017

Protecting interns and other physicians from depression and suicide STAT, 2017

Public service loan forgiveness can help fix the shortage of primary care and rural physicians STAT, 2017

Physicians Hesitant to Retire, Study Finds Physicians Practice, 2017

Putting The Scalpel Down: When Should Physicians Retire? American Council on Science and Health, 2017  



Shortages & Trends


Black female doctors represent only tiny fraction of all doctors nationwide The Mercury News, 2018

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Workforce Diversity National Conference of State Legislatures, 2014

Does Your Hospital Reflect the Community It Serves? American Hospital Association, 2004

Fact Sheet: The Need for Diversity in the Health Care Workforce Health Professionals for Diversity Coalition

Diversity




Behavioral Health Workforce

Workforce Survey 2018 Behavioral Health Executive, 2018

The mental health workforce is 'reaching a cliff edge'. What can be done? The Guardian, 2017

Shrinking the Psychiatrist Shortage Managed Care, 2016

Wisconsin Behavioral Health Workforce, 2015 Rural Health Research & Policy Centers, 2015 


More

Physicians bring economic health to Wisconsin’s communities AMA, WMS, 2018

U.S. Health Workforce Chartbook HRSA, 2018 

Welcome to the Workforce Issue Politico, 2017

How foreign-trained doctors are filling the health care gap in Greater Minnesota MinnPost, 2017

Wisconsin Ranks 2nd in Nation in Electronic Health Records WI Department of Health Services, 2017 

Across the pond, Britain luring U.S. physician assistants to solve its own doctor shortage FierceHealthcare, 2017

Tiber Health wants to solve the world’s doctor shortage TechCrunch, 2017 

On the Record with Dr. John Raymond, Medical College of Wisconsin Pharmacy School Wisconsin Health News, 2017 

Doctor Shortage Under Obamacare? It Didn’t Happen The New York Times, 2017

Home Health Care: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing? The New York Times, 2017 

Paging Dr. Freelance: Hospitals’ use of contract doctors soars amid physician shortage STAT, 2017 

AMA: Reversing DACA puts patient care at risk, could worsen doctor shortage Healthcare Finance, 2017 

Advanced practitioners called on to ease cancer care shortage, but challenges remain Modern Healthcare, 2017  

North Idaho combats physician shortage Spokane Journal, 2017 

Customizing Health IT to Support Physician Workflow and Reduce Burden Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2017 

California needs health-care workers, and it’s asking for help Los Angeles Daily News, 2017 

Georgia Takes Steps to Strengthen the Health Care Workforce Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, 2017

The Robot Will See You Now American Academy of PAs, 2016

Statistical Profile of Certified Physician Assistants by State National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, 2015

 The Costs of Training Internal Medicine Residents in the U.S. Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, 2014