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Economic and demographic trends signal an impending physician shortageRichard A Cooper
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:140-54. 2002..A dialogue focused on that eventuality is imperative...- Current and projected workforce of nonphysician cliniciansR A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
JAMA 280:788-94. 1998..Because of the existing training pipeline, it is probable that most of the growth projected for 2005 will occur. The further expansion of both NPC and physician supply thereafter warrants careful reconsideration... - Scarce physicians encounter scarce foundations: a call for actionRichard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:243-9. 2004..Foundations will be necessary partners in what is to come... - Weighing the evidence for expanding physician supplyRichard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Ann Intern Med 141:705-14. 2004..By 2020 or 2025, the deficit could be as great as 200,000 physicians--20% of the needed workforce. If remedies are to be found, the nature of the problem must be appreciated, and a consensus to solve it must be reached... - Where is psychiatry going and who is going there?Richard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Acad Psychiatry 27:229-34. 2003 - Perceptions of medical school deans and state medical society executives about physician supplyRichard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
JAMA 290:2992-5. 2003..Physician shortages are appearing, yet controversy about their significance and uncertainty about their remedy exist... - Impact of trends in primary, secondary, and postsecondary education on applications to medical school. II: considerations of race, ethnicity, and incomeRichard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Acad Med 78:864-76. 2003.... - Impact of trends in primary, secondary, and postsecondary education on applications to medical school. I: gender considerationsRichard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Acad Med 78:855-63. 2003.... 
Chiropractic in the United States: trends and issuesRichard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Milbank Q 81:107-38, table of contents. 2003..Although patients express a high level of satisfaction with chiropractic treatment and politicians are sympathetic to it, this may not be enough as our nation grapples to define the health care system that it can afford...- There's a shortage of specialists: is anyone listening?Richard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Acad Med 77:761-6. 2002..However, despite what he sees as a growing cacophony of voices expressing alarm about the developing shortages, he is concerned that academic medicine may not be listening... - Roles of nonphysician clinicians as autonomous providers of patient careR A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
JAMA 280:795-802. 1998..It is time for regulatory integration and professional collaboration so that a health care workforce that includes a diversity of disciplines can be assured of providing a coherent set of patient care services in the future... - Health care workforce for the twenty-first century: the impact of nonphysician cliniciansR A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Annu Rev Med 52:51-61. 2001..This presents both opportunities and challenges to physicians as they forge new relationships with NPCs and as their own spectrum of responsibilities evolves... - Medical schools and their applicants: an analysisRichard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:71-84. 2003.... - Economic expansion is a major determinant of physician supply and utilizationRichard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53202, USA
Health Serv Res 38:675-96. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Economic expansion has a strong, lagged relationship with changes in physician supply. This suggests that economic projections could serve as a gauge for projecting the future utilization of physician services... - Physician migration: a challenge for America, a challenge for the worldRichard A Cooper
Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
J Contin Educ Health Prof 25:8-14. 2005..The challenges that this will create call for mutual understanding and a high degree of discipline and creativity among all countries if global health care needs are to be respected... - Human inputs: the health care workforce and medical marketsR A Cooper
Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 26:925-38. 2001..Arrow identified potent tools for affecting the characteristics of the health care workforce. They now must be redirected to the needs of the future... - The coming physician shortageRichard A Cooper
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:296-9. 2002 - The coming era of too few physiciansRichard A Cooper
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Bull Am Coll Surg 93:11-8. 2008 - It's time to address the problem of physician shortages: graduate medical education is the keyRichard A Cooper
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Care Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Ann Surg 246:527-34. 2007 - New directions for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the era of physician shortagesRichard A Cooper
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Care Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Acad Med 82:827-8. 2007..Coordinated planning to increase the educational infrastructure for physicians, NPs, and PAs is essential... - Medical migration to the U.S.: trends and impactDaniel Polsky
Leonard David Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
LDI Issue Brief 12:1-4. 2007..S. shortage. This Issue Brief analyzes trends in medical migration, and explores its short- and long-term effects on the health care workforce in the U.S. and in developing countries... - Values and ethics: a collection of curricular reforms for a new generation of physiciansRichard A Cooper
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, USA
Acad Med 82:321-3. 2007..It is the authors' hope that this series of papers will stimulate still more thinking and lead to the curricular reform that future generations of physicians deserve... - Health services delivery: reframing policies for global migration of nurses and physicians--a U.S. perspectiveRichard A Cooper
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Policy Polit Nurs Pract 7:66S-70S. 2006.... - Indian medical students' views on immigration for training and practiceNyapati R Rao
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 3641 Locust Walk, Suite 314, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6218, USA
Acad Med 81:185-8. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: While optimism about future medical careers in India is increasing, the interest of Indian medical students in training and subsequently practicing in the United States remains high... - Viewpoint: New physicians for a new centuryRichard A Cooper
Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania, 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6218, USA
Acad Med 80:1086-8. 2005..Such changes are both timely and necessary. Although they will be difficult to accomplish, they offer an opportunity for medical educators to foster the development of physicians with the range attributes that this new century demands... - Credentialing complementary and alternative medical providersDavid M Eisenberg
Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Osher Institute, Harvard Medical School, Suite 22A, 401 Park Drive, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Ann Intern Med 137:965-73. 2002..The suggested framework balances the desire to protect the public from dangerous practices against the wish to grant patients access to reasonably safe and effective therapies... - Health care spending in one chartRichard A Cooper
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:279. 2002 - The U.S. presidential election and health care workforce policyMatthew D McHugh
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Policy Polit Nurs Pract 9:6-14. 2008..Three general themes are highlighted for their implications on the physician and nurse workforce supply, including (a) expansion of health care coverage, (b) workforce investment, and (c) cost control and quality improvement...