Resources for Primary Care Workforce
Resources: Specialty Choice: Compensation (12)
Key Resources
9th Annual Report to the Secretary DHHS and to Congress: Priming the Pump of Primary Care
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Focuses on the primary care pipeline and how to encourage more trainees to pursue primary care. Provides policy recommendations concerning Title VII, sections 747 and 748. Covers education and training, admissions policies, faculty development and mentorship programs, student debt, and compensation. Addresses dental faculty shortages and dental workforce models.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Education and Training, Faculty, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health, Rural, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load, Supply and Demand, Workforce Pipeline
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Additional Resources
Income Ratio and Medical Student Specialty Choice: The Primary Importance of the Ratio of Mean Primary Care Physician Income to Mean Consulting Specialist Income
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Identifies factors that influence medical student specialty choice. Focuses on the ratio of average primary care physician compensation to other physicians. Highlights efforts in Canada and the United Kingdom to increase primary care income and the impact on specialty choice.
Author: Kruse J
Location: Family Medicine, 45(4), 281-3
Date: 4/2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Idaho Primary Care Physicians: Workforce Overview
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Analyzes the primary care physician workforce in Idaho. Discusses supply and demand impacts including education, residencies, specialty selection, recruitment, incentive programs, health reform and more. Offers data on supply, demand, wages, demographics, and more by specialty and region. Includes national comparison data and survey tool in appendices.
Organization: Idaho Department of Labor
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Diversity, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Reform, Idaho, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs, Specialty Choice, Supply and Demand
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Effect of Financial Remuneration on Specialty Choice of Fourth-Year U.S. Medical Students
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Reports on a survey of medical students to determine whether financial incentives would increase interest in primary care. Identifies additional reasons why students didn't apply for primary care residencies.
Author: Dezee KJ, Maurer D, Colt R, Shimeall W, Mallory R, Powers J, Durning SJ
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(2), 187-93
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Income Disparities Shape Medical Student Specialty Choice
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Compares the income gap between primary care and subspecialist physicians over the course of a physician career.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Wilder V, Dodoo MS, Phillips RL Jr, Teevan B, Bazemore AW, Petterson SM, Xierali I
Location: American Family Physician, 82(6), 601
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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The Cost of Pursuing a Medical Career in the Military: A Tale of Five Specialties
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Link: Abstract
Examines how the military pays physicians and its impact on several physician specialties. Concludes that paying for medical education in exchange for service may increase interest in primary care.
Author: Cronin W, Morgan J, Weeks WB
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(8), 1316-20
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Surgeons, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load
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The Primary Care Physician and Health Care Reform
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Offers a perspective on the impact of scope of practice and salary on the shortage of physicians going into primary care.
Author: Brook RH, Young RT
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 303(15), 1535-1536
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Specialty Choice
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The Uncertain Future of Primary Medical Care
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Offers a perspective on issues that are causing dissatisfaction with primary care as a career. Addresses time pressures, clinical autonomy, and salary.
Author: Mechanic D
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 151(1), 66-7
Date: 7/2009
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Reforming Physician Payments to Achieve Greater Value in Health Care Spending: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians
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Analyzes the primary care payment system. Discusses the gap between primary care and specialty compensation and its affect on physician specialty choice on pages 18-25. Addresses the patient-centered medical home.
Organization: American College of Physicians
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Specialty Choice
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Easing the Shortage in Adult Primary Care — Is It All about Money?
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Offers a perspective on the primary care shortage. Discusses the income gap between primary care and other physician specialties and the reliance on international medical graduates. Highlights reasons students choose primary care and supportive policies.
Author: Steinbrook R
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 360(26), 2696-9
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, International Medical Graduates, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Supply and Demand
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Future Salary and US Residency Fill Rate Revisited
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Examines the association between anticipated income and specialty selection using 2007 Match data.
Author: Ebell MH
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 300(10), 1131-2
Date: 9/2008
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Exodus of Male Physicians from Primary Care Drives Shift to Specialty Practice
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Reports on the changing makeup of the primary care physician workforce, with growing numbers of female physicians and of International Medical Graduates (IMGs). Discusses changes in income for primary care physicians and how that might impact the future supply of primary care physicians.
Author: Tu HT, O'Malley AS
Location: Tracking Report, (17):1-6
Date: 6/2007
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, International Medical Graduates, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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