Resources for Primary Care Workforce
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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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Primary Care Health Workforce in the United States
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Additional Link: Policy Brief
Reviews the published literature and data on the primary care workforce. Addresses distribution, supply, demand, need, scope of practice, payment policies, market forces, and pressures encouraging change in primary care including the Affordable Care Act. Discusses the policy implications. Appendices address nurse practitioner scope of practice laws and several supply and demand models.
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Author: Dower C, O'Neil E
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Reform, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Council on Graduate Medical Education Twentieth Report: Advancing Primary Care
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Provides recommendations for increasing the number of residents trained in a primary care specialty. Discusses the number of primary care physicians; mechanisms of physician payment and practice transformations for primary care; the premedical and medical school environment; the graduate medical education environment; and the geographic and socioeconomic maldistribution of physicians. Includes references.
Organization: Council on Graduate Medical Education
Date: 12/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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8th Annual Report to the Secretary DHHS and to Congress: The Redesign of Primary Care with Implications for Training
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Provides recommendations for federal policies to support primary care with a focus on Title VII, section 747. Addresses the importance of primary care, the medical-dental home, community-based residency training, the National Health Service Corps, reimbursement, and more.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Dentists, Education and Training, Interprofessional Training and Education, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Health Affairs May 2010: Reinventing Primary Care
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Thematic issue examining the primary care system crisis and promising solutions for system innovation.
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5)
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Remaking Primary Care: A Framework for the Future
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Analyzes the causes of the primary care crises, the effects, and innovations that could strengthen primary care, such as collaborative education. Addresses the impact of health care reform on primary care.
Organizations: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, NEHI
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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Access Transformed: Building a Primary Care Workforce for the 21st Century
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Examines both the current state of the primary care workforce and future demand for health center services. The study finds the availability of a primary care workforce depends on where you live, and primary care clinicians are not located in areas that need them the most, especially low-income communities. The study includes state-level projections of growing patient needs and community health center staffing data.
Organizations: George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, National Association of Community Health Centers, Robert Graham Center
Date: 8/2008
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, National, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Primary Care Professionals: Recent Supply Trends, Projections, and Valuation of Services
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Focuses on recent supply trends for primary care professionals, including information on training and demographic characteristics; projections of future supply for primary care professionals; and the influence of the health care system's financing mechanisms on the valuation of primary care services.
Organization: Government Accountability Office
Date: 2/2008
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Dentists, Family Medicine Physicians, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Osteopathic Physicians, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Primary Care Physician Mapper
Map
Details the distribution of primary care physicians by state, county, or census tracts in metropolitan areas. Includes population ratios. Covers a number of specialties within family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. Uses National Provider Identifier (NPI) data.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Geriatrics, National, Physicians, Primary Care, State-by-State, Supply and Demand
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The Primary Care Service Area Project
Web site
Offers a national database of primary care resources and utilization for small areas. Includes primary care physician characteristics and supply and sample maps. Provides a zip code search feature with data on primary care FTEs, Medicare utilization, and more.
Organization: The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Care Access, National, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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PubMed Search: Primary Care and the Health Workforce
Literature search
Searches PubMed's collection of journal article
citations on the topic of primary care as it relates to the health workforce.
Organization: National Library of Medicine
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Tagged keywords: National, Primary Care
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Additional Resources
14th International Health Workforce Collaborative 2013
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Provides papers, presentations, and posters from an international conference on the health workforce held May 6-9, 2013 in Quebec City, Canada. Addresses health workforce planning, balancing health workforce needs with demands to contain costs and improve quality, implementing workforce innovations, and more.
Date: 5/2013
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, International, Interprofessional Training and Education, Policy, Primary Care
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2013 9th Annual Physician Workforce Research Conference
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Provides the agenda for the AAMC physician research conference held May 2-3, 2013 in Alexandria, Virginia. Includes presentation slides if you sign in at the top of the screen and then click on "Agenda." Addresses health workforce analysis, building workforce diversity, non-physician providers, factors affecting primary care career choice, rural workforce supply and productivity, graduate medical education, student debt, team-based care, HRSA's new simulation model, and health equity.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies
Date: 5/2013
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Community Health Workers, Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, National, Nurse Practitioners, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Residency Programs, Rural, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load, Supply and Demand
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Expanding the Role of Advanced Nurse Practitioners: Risks and Rewards
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Reports on estimates regarding the growing shortage of physicians, and the status of efforts to implement recommendations of an IOM report that charts a future for nursing. Discusses the limits that state scope-of-practice laws impose on advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs).
Author: Iglehart J
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 368(20), 1935-41
Date: 5/2013
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Tagged keywords: Clinical Nurse Specialists, Education and Training, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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Health Policy Briefs: Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care
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Examines the policy proposals for allowing nurse practitioners to practice to their full potential and the accompanying debate. An update to an earlier brief which was published in October, 2012.
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Location: Health Affairs
Date: 5/2013
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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Improving the Medicaid Primary Care Rate Increase
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Offers recommendations regarding how states can use the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid increase for primary care providers to improve access to care.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Date: 5/2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Primary Care
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National Healthcare Quality Report, 2012
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Discusses health care quality in the United States. Covers care effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, care coordination, efficiency of care, the health system infrastructure, and access to care. Addresses the geographic distribution of primary care physicians on pages 191-4.
Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Date: 5/2013
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, National, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care
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Perspectives of Physicians and Nurse Practitioners on Primary Care Practice
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Link: Abstract
Reports on a national survey of physicians and nurse practitioners regarding scope of work, practice characteristics, and their attitudes about the effect of expanding the role of nurse practitioners in primary care.
Author: Donelan K, DesRoches CM, Dittus RS, Buerhaus P
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 368(20), 1898-1906
Date: 5/2013
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Results of the 2012 Medical School Enrollment Survey
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Examines enrollment trends in medical schools based on a survey of deans of accredited US medical schools. Projects first-year medical school enrollment through 2020. Identifies concerns about clinical training sites and about enrollment growth outpacing growth in graduate medical education (GME). Highlights initiatives to increase interest in primary care.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies
Author: Erikson C, Danish S
Date: 5/2013
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Supply and Demand
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Testimony: Moving Forward from the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) System
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Additional Link: Update
Offers a testimony to the Committee on Finance regarding Medicare's payment system for physicians and other health professionals. Focuses on the sustainable growth rate (SGR) system. Advocates replacing the SGR to support beneficiary access, primary care, and new models of care like accountable care organizations.
Organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Author: Miller ME
Date: 5/2013
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Drive-Time Analyses for Primary and Specialty Care
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Offers an issue brief examining how far people in Arkansas have to drive to access primary and specialty care.
Organization: Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
Date: 4/2013
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Tagged keywords: Arkansas, Health Care Access, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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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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Measures of Social Deprivation That Predict Health Care Access and Need within a Rational Area of Primary Care Service Delivery
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Link: Abstract
Introduces a social deprivation index as a method of identifying areas with poor access to health care and poor health outcomes. Supports using it in revisions of Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and Medically Underserved Area (MUA) designations.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Butler DC, Petterson S, Phillips RL, Bazemore AW
Location: Health Services Research, 48(2 Pt 1), 539-59
Date: 4/2013
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, National, Primary Care, Shortage Designations
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Minnesota’s Physician Assistant Workforce 2011
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Presents information on demographics, education, career, and future plans of physician assistants (PAs) in Minnesota.
Organization: Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Date: 4/2013
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Minnesota, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Opportunities and Challenges in Supply-Side Simulation: Physician-Based Models
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Link: Abstract
Provides an overview of microsimulation modeling that can be used to model the effects of health care policies on physician supply and behaviors. Highlights key data sources, both public and private. Compares physician supply and the percent of primary care physicians who accept Medicaid across several data sources.
Author: Gresenz CR, Auerbach DI, Duarte F
Location: Health Services Research, 48(2 Pt 2), 696-712
Date: 4/2013
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Tagged keywords: Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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A Sketch of Community Health Centers: Chart Book 2013
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Provides an overview of community health centers. Describes what they do, who they help, and barriers they face. Addresses the community health center workforce on pages 66-72 and 76-78.
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Date: 4/2013
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Federally Qualified Health Centers, International Medical Graduates, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural
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Subcommittee Hearing - Successful Primary Care Programs: Creating the Workforce We Need
Video or multimedia
Provides a video of a hearing on workforce programs that increase access to primary care. Includes testimony papers. Addresses the National Health Service Corps, teaching health centers, community health centers, medical schools that encourage physicians to go into primary care, the role of nurse practitioners in primary care, and more.
Author: Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Date: 4/2013
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Rural, Specialty Choice
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Target 2020: Summary of the 2012 Primary Care Medical Workforce Summit
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Summarizes a meeting focused on primary care physician shortages held May 2012 in Georgia. Lists recommendations adopted by the summit.
Organization: Georgia Statewide AHEC Network
Date: 4/2013
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Tagged keywords: Georgia, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Trends in Physician Supply and Population Growth
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Offers a chart showing growth in the direct patient care physician workforce for primary care and subspecialties for 1980-2010. Supports investing in specialty and geographic balance rather than just increasing the number of physicians to meet population needs.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Makaroff LA, Green LA, Petterson SM, Bazemore AW
Location: American Family Physician, 87(7), online
Date: 4/2013
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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U.S. Graduate Medical Education and Physician Specialty Choice
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Estimates of the number of new trainees who will practice primary care based on data from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Addresses trends in ACGME-accredited residency positions and specialty choice.
Author: Jolly P, Erikson C, Garrison G
Location: Academic Medicine, 88(4), 468-474
Date: 4/2013
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, International Medical Graduates, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Specialty Choice, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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2012 New York Residency Training Outcomes: A Summary of Key Findings from the 2012 New York Resident Exit Survey
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Reports on an exit survey of physicians completing residency and fellowship programs in New York by specialty. Covers perceptions of job market, in-state retention, international medical graduates, subspecialization, starting income, and more.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Author: Armstrong D, Forte G
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Geriatrics, New York, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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Arkansas Health Care Workforce: A Guide for Policy Action
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Additional Link: Appendices
Examines current and future primary and specialty workforce needs in Arkansas by county, including rural drive times. Addresses options for extending primary care capacity through advanced practice nurses and physician assistants based on a literature review and other states' efforts. Analyzes payer mix by county and how expanded insurance coverage may affect provider access. Appendices provide focus group and survey results, methodology discussions, and survey instruments.
Organization: Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Arkansas, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Education and Training, Health Care Quality, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Health Reform, Malpractice Insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Research and Data Collection Methods, Rural, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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Closing the Primary Care Gap
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Highlights research from a variety of sources on nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Addresses their role in relieving the primary care shortage, questions to ask when deciding to hire a NP/PA, salaries by specialty, and workplace settings.
Author: Stempniak M
Location: Hospitals & Health Networks
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Family Medicine March 2013: Graduate Medical Education Article Series
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Offers a series of articles on changes needed in graduate medical education. Focuses on family medicine. Addresses the number of GME positions, distribution of those positions, and program quality. Discusses student debt and GME funding.
Location: Family Medicine, 45(3)
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Family Medicine Physicians, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Student Debt Load
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Generalist plus Specialist Palliative Care — Creating a More Sustainable Model
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Offers a perspective on the supply and demand of palliative care specialists. Supports a coordinated palliative care model where primary palliative care can be delivered by primary care physicians and specialists with consultation by palliative care specialists.
Author: Quill TE, Abernethy AP
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 368(13), 1173-5
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Graduate Medical Education in Georgia, March 2013
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Summarizes information on Georgia's graduate medical education system. Highlights the importance of teaching hospitals, the number of physicians trained annually, in-state retention, and how Georgia compares with nearby states. Identifies average medical education debt and starting salaries for primary care and non-primary care specialties.
Organization: Georgia Board for Physician Workforce
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Georgia, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Student Debt Load
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The I-Tribe Community Pharmacy Practice Model: Professional Pharmacy Unshackled
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Link: Abstract
Describes a technology-based practice model for pharmacists that could help them meet demand for basic primary medical care.
Author: Alston GL, Waitzman JA
Location: Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 53(2), 163-71
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, National, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Primary Care
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Improving Care Through Workforce Innovation
Video or multimedia
Offers a webinar recording focused on the Grand Aides model, a health care professional trained to help connect the patient and health care team.
Organization: California Healthcare Foundation
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, National, Primary Care
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Inseparable: Mental Health and Primary Care
Video or multimedia
Provides a recording of a webinar focused on integrating mental health, behavioral health, substance use and primary care. Highlights a model program in Colorado. Addresses teamwork.
Organization: Primary Care Progress
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Colorado, National, Primary Care
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Match Report 2013
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Summarizes 2013 match results with a focus on internal medicine. Addresses the impact of the "all-in" Match requirement for residency programs. Highlights interest in primary care.
Organization: Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Report of the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform
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Discusses physician payment models and their impact on health care costs. Presents six principles and twelve recommendations for physician payment reform. Covers Medicare reimbursement, current and recommended payment models, impacts on health care quality and more.
Organizations: California Healthcare Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Society of General Internal Medicine
Author: National Commission on Physician Payment Reform
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Quality, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy
Document
Additional Link: Fact Sheet
Reports to Congress on issues related to the Medicare program and offers policy recommendations. Addresses the physician fee schedule, sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, and primary care access issues in chapter 4.
Organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Rethink: The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Video or multimedia
Describes the four roles of advanced practice registered nurses including clinical nurse specialist, nurse midwife, nurse practitioner, and certified registered nurse anesthetist. Presents the implementation efforts of the Virginia Action Coalition with the IOM Future of Nursing report recommendations.
Organization: Center to Champion Nursing in America
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Virginia
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Revised Recommendations for the Oregon Health Policy Board
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Contains the revised 2012 recommendations from the Oregon Healthcare Workforce Committee regarding recommended strategies, actions and policy changes that support
the recruitment, retention, and distribution of Oregon’s health care workforce, with an emphasis on
primary care.
Organization: Oregon Health Policy Board
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Oregon, Policy, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Trends in Graduate Medical Education in North Carolina: Challenges and Next Steps
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Provides an overview of graduate medical education in North Carolina. Addresses whether physicians stay in state, practice in primary care, or practice in rural or underserved areas. Highlights the role of North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program and community-based residencies.
Organizations: Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Program on Health Workforce Research & Policy
Author: Fraher E, Spero J, Lyons J, Newton H
Date: 3/2013
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Tagged keywords: Area Health Education Centers, North Carolina, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Rural, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Agricultural Health Training for Rural America: Final Report
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Additional Links: Agricultural Medicine Programs, Policy Brief
Identifies ways to improve rural training programs for health professionals providing primary care to agriculture workers. Includes policy options. Lists agricultural health programs and courses and highlights states offering these programs. Describes existing collaborations between clinicians and agriculture-related agencies.
Organization: West Virginia Rural Health Research Center
Author: Persily C, Hendryx M, Beane J, Armistead M, Huebner K, Innes-Wimsatt K
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Continuing Education, Education and Training, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Rural, State-by-State
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AHECs and Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: State by State Activities 2012-13
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Identifies activities and programs Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) are doing in each state that relate to Affordable Care Act priorities. Covers primary care training, workforce diversity activities, rotations in underserved areas, community-based training, and new models of care.
Organization: National Area Health Education Center Organization
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Area Health Education Centers, Care Coordination, Diversity, Education and Training, Health Reform, National, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Rural, State-by-State, Workforce Pipeline
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Arizona Primary Care Area Statistical Profiles
Web site
Provides access to data relating to primary care for regions in Arizona. Data includes supply of health care professionals on page 3 of each regional report. To access data select county on map then select primary care region on following map.
Organization: Arizona Bureau of Health Systems Development
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics, Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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Deafness among Physicians and Trainees: A National Survey
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Link: Abstract
Describes the characteristics of and accommodations used by the deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHoH) physician and trainees. Examines whether they are more likely to care for DHoH patients.
Author: Moreland CJ, Latimore D, Sen A, Arato N, Zazove P
Location: Academic Medicine, 88(2), 224-32
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Is NIH Research Funding to Medical Schools Associated with More Family Physicians?
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Offers a Graham Center policy one-pager on the association between National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to family medicine departments and the production of family physicians at those medical schools.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Brode EC, Petterson SM, Bazemore AW
Location: American Family Physician, 87(3), 1
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Medical Education in the Caribbean: Quantifying the Contribution of Caribbean-Educated Physicians to the Primary Care Workforce in the United States
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Link: Abstract
Examines the number of Caribbean-educated physicians practicing in primary care specialties in the United States. Includes breakdowns for internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and general practice.
Author: van Zanten M, Boulet JR
Location: Academic Medicine, 88(2), 276-81
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Immigration, International Medical Graduates, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Medicare Graduate Nursing Education Demonstration: A Summary
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Summarizes the Medicare Graduate Nurse Education (GNE) Demonstration, which was funded by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and will attempt to educate advanced practice nurses to better provide health care to older adults.
Organizations: AARP, Center to Champion Nursing in America, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Education and Training, Geriatrics, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Registered Nurses
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Primary Care Workforce Shortages: Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws and Payment Policies
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Examines and compares scope of practice laws for nurse practitioners (NPs) in six states: Arkansas, Arizona, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and Michigan. Discusses the impact of scope of practice restrictions on NPs in primary care. Covers health care quality, Medicaid payment policies, and policy recommendations.
Organizations: Center for Studying Health System Change, National Institute for Health Care Reform
Author: Yee T, Boukus E, Cross D, Samuel D,
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Arkansas, Health Care Quality, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Medicare and Medicaid, Michigan, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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Profile: Oregon’s Physician Workforce – 2012
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Reports data on physicians in Oregon. Covers supply, employment status and setting, demographics, future practice plans and more.
Organization: Oregon Healthcare Workforce Institute
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Oregon, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand
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The Vermont Primary Care Workforce: 2012 Snapshot
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Reports on three regional surveys of Vermont's primary care workforce. Includes full-time equivalents (FTEs) and providers limiting or not accepting new patients. Covers primary care physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, certified nurse midwives, and certified physician assistants.
Organization: University of Vermont College of Medicine AHEC Program
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Care Access, Midwives, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand, Vermont
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West Virginia Health Sciences and Rural Health Report Card 2012
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Examines medical school enrollment, student debt, and those choosing primary care and/or rural practices in West Virginia. Lists the number of physician, dentist, pharmacist, and nurse practitioner graduates who stay in state. Highlights state loan and scholarship programs and Rural Health Initiative activities intended to recruit and retain providers for rural areas.
Organization: West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission
Date: 2/2013
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Dentists, Education and Training, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Nurse Practitioners, Osteopathic Physicians, Pharmacists, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs, Rural, Student Debt Load, Supply and Demand, West Virginia
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5-Year Strategic Plan for Primary Care Provider Recruitment in Oregon
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Reviews recruitment best practices and existing recruitment programs in Oregon. Offers a plan for primary care recruitment and retention focused on producing primary care professionals in the state, increasing the state's external recruitment effectiveness, and empowering rural and underserved communities.
Organization: Oregon Health Policy Board
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Nursing Occupations, Oregon, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Can Medical Students Afford to Choose Primary Care? An Economic Analysis of Physician Education Debt Repayment
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Additional Link: Abstract
Analyzes whether a physician earning a typical primary care salary can repay the current median level of education debt and meet standard household expenses.
Author: Youngclaus JA, Koehler PA, Kotlikoff LJ, Wiecha JM
Location: Academic Medicine, 88(1), 16-25
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load
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Charting Nursing's Future: Celebrating a Sustained Commitment to Improving Health and Health Care through Nursing, RWJF Marks Its 40th Anniversary
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Summarizes the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) impact on nursing over 40 years. Covers programs addressing educational capacity, expanding roles for nurses, nursing workforce data, and more. Provides a map of states with nursing workforce centers resulting from RWJF investments.
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Research and Data Collection Methods
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Doctor Shortage: Condition Critical - Results of HANYS' 2012 Physician Advocacy Survey
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Reports on a survey of hospitals and health systems in New York State regarding the physician shortage, with a focus on primary care. Highlights findings for rural areas. Addresses recruitment and retention issues and use of non-physician clinicians.
Organization: Healthcare Association of New York State
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: New York, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Educating Future Doctors: Tomorrow's Doctors, Tomorrows Cures, Yesterday's Prices
Video or multimedia
Offers Dr. Mark Smith's presentation at the 2012 meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges on reforming medical education. Addresses rising health care and education costs, changes for academic medical centers, provider shortages, the role of non-physician providers, team-based care, new uses for technology, scope of practice issues and more.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Care Coordination, Education and Training, Health Care Quality, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Student Debt Load, Supply and Demand, Technology in Education and Training
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Enhancing the Primary Care Team to Provide Redesigned Care: The Roles of Practice Facilitators and Care Managers
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Addresses the roles of two members of the primary care team, the practice facilitator and care manager. Discusses how practice facilitators help with quality improvement efforts and how care managers help coordinate care.
Author: Taylor EF, Machta RM, Meyers DS, Genevro J, Peikes DN
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 11(1), 80-3
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Care Quality, National, Patient Navigators, Primary Care
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Grantwatch Foundation Funding to Educate, Train, and Expand the Health Professions Workforce
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Summarizes 2012 foundation funding used for health workforce programs. Includes programs that addressed workforce shortages, education and training, geriatric nursing initiatives, support for home care and nursing aides, medical assistant training, and more.
Location: Health Affairs, 32 (1), 188-191
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Geriatrics, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Home Health Aides and Home Care Aides, Medical Assistants, National, Nursing Aides, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Healthcare Labor Shortages and Potential Solutions
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Discusses health care workforce shortages in Montana. Includes data on employment growth for various occupations, shortage levels, physician to patient ratios, and number of health care graduates. Addresses past and future options for addressing shortages.
Organization: Montana Department of Labor & Industry: Workforce Services Division
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Montana, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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International Medical Graduates in American Medicine: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities
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Describes the history of international medical graduates (IMGs) in the US. Addresses their contributions to the physician workforce, the impact of health reform, graduate medical education, immigration and visas, and the brain drain. Presents demographics of the IMG workforce. Offers recommendations.
Organization: American Medical Association
Author: AMA-IMG Section Governing Council
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, Immigration, International Medical Graduates, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Pediatric Resident Debt and Career Intentions
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Link: Abstract
Reports on a national random sample survey of graduating pediatric residents regarding educational debt and clinical practice goals. Identifies an association between higher student debt and primary care or hospitalist practice compared to fellowship training.
Author: Frintner MP, Mulvey HJ, Pletcher BA, Olson LM
Location: Pediatrics, Epub 2013 Jan 6
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load
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Physician Assistants in Primary Care: Trends and Characteristics
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Examines the demographic characteristics of physician assistants (PAs) practicing in primary care. Identifies trends in the percent of PAs choosing primary care by year of graduation for 1975-2008.
Author: Coplan B, Cawley J, Stoehr J
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 11(1), 75-9
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: National, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Physician Supply and the Affordable Care Act
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Examines the current and future supply of physicians. Discusses how the Affordable Care Act affects both. Covers the number of physicians, specialty composition, and geographic distribution. Addresses workforce planning activities included in the ACA.
Organization: Congressional Research Service
Author: Heisler EJ
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Rural, Shortage Designations, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Primary Care Access, 30 Million New Patients and 11 Months to Go: Who Will Provide Their Primary Care?
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Reports on lack of access to primary care and contributing factors. Identifies solutions to address these issues.
Author: Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care Nurse Practitioners in Nebraska
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Reports on the primary care nurse practitioner workforce in Nebraska. Includes data on supply, specialty, employment setting, gender, age and rural/urban distribution. Discusses policy recommendations for increasing supply.
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center: Center for Health Policy
Author: Bhuyan SS, Deras M, Cramer ME, Cuddigan JE, Stimpson JP
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Nebraska, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Policy, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care Physician Assistants in Nebraska
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Reports on the primary care physician assistant workforce in Nebraska. Includes data on supply, specialty, employment setting, gender, age and rural/urban distribution. Discusses policy recommendations for increasing supply.
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center: Center for Health Policy
Author: Bhuyan SS, Deras M, Ritsema TS, Huckabee MJ, Stimpson JP
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Nebraska, Physician Assistants, Policy, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care Physician Shortages Could Be Eliminated Through Use of Teams, Nonphysicians, and Electronic Communication
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Link: Abstract
Introduces a method for measuring and forecasting physician supply based on new models of care such as patient-centered medical homes. Discusses the impact of team-based care, non-physician providers and electronic health records on increasing access and reducing primary care physician shortages.
Author: Green LV, Savin S, Lu Y
Location: Health Affairs, 32(1), 11-19
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Access, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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Provider Workload and Quality of Care in Primary Care Settings: Moderating Role of Relational Climate
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Link: Abstract
Reports on a survey of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care clinics regarding workload and quality of care. Concludes that clinics with a better relational climate have higher quality of care rankings even if they have a higher workload. Highlights the importance of relational climate as a teamwork factor.
Author: Mohr DC, Benzer JK, Young GJ
Location: Medical Care, 51(1), 108-14
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Clinics, Health Care Quality, National, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The Redistribution of Graduate Medical Education Positions in 2005 Failed to Boost Primary Care or Rural Training
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Link: Abstract
Analyzes the impact of redistributing graduate medical education (GME) residency positions through the Medicare Modernization Act. Concludes that the goals for increasing primary care and rural physician supply were not met. Addresses the implications for the Affordable Care Act's GME redistribution.
Author: Chen C, Xierali I, Piwnica-Worms K, Philips R
Location: Health Affairs, 32(1), 102-110
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Subcommittee Hearing - 30 Million New Patients and 11 Months to Go: Who Will Provide Their Primary Care?
Video or multimedia
Provides a video of a Subcommittee hearing on primary care access. Includes testimony papers. Addresses teaching health centers, community health centers, the National Health Service Corps, use of nurse practitioners, physician specialty choice, and more.
Author: Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Scope of Practice, Specialty Choice
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Update: Final Medicaid Primary Care Payment Rules
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Provides an overview of the final rule increasing state Medicaid rates to Medicare levels for primary care physicians under the Affordable Care Act. Identifies potential implications for physician participation in Medicaid and for physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
Organizations: George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Workforce Roles in a Redesigned Primary Care Model
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Reports on a roundtable discussion addressing effective primary care models and workforce roles. Covers facilitators and barriers, emerging roles, information technology, and rural primary care. Offers a continuum of care model. Provides recommendations and identifies best practices.
Organization: American Hospital Association
Date: 1/2013
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Hospitals, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Primary Care, Rural, Trends and Emerging Issues
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2013 Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue Survey
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Reports on a survey of physicians to determine how much money they made their affiliated hospitals to guide recruitment plans and physician compensation. Includes data from five years of surveys. Compares primary care to specialist physicians and all physicians.
Author: Merritt Hawkins
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Hospitals, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Assuring Adequate Specialists, Generalists and a Health Workforce Where It’s Needed: How Do We Balance Demands to Improve Quality, Expand Access and Contain Health Care Costs?
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Discusses the US National Health Quality Strategy in a paper from the 14th International Health Workforce Collaborative held May 6-9, 2013 in Quebec City, Canada. Addresses the context of US health workforce policy, current initiatives, the Affordable Care Act, and medical education.
Author: Granatir T, Nora LM
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Care Access, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Care Coordination & Older Adults Issue Brief by Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) & National Coalition on Care Coordination (N3C)
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Discusses models of care coordination, the health care providers involved in each care team, target populations for each model and more. Covers the benefits of care coordination.
Organization: Eldercare Workforce Alliance
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Social Workers
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Community Oriented Primary Care Curriculum
Curricula
Offers a curriculum and resources to teach educational health center trainees how to assess community health needs and integrate public health with primary care. Provides slides, notes, case studies, geographic information systems (GIS) tools, resource guides, and more.
Organizations: HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care, National Association of Community Health Centers, Robert Graham Center
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Federally Qualified Health Centers, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Public Health, Residency Programs
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County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Web site
Ranks counties in the United States based on various health factors including primary care physician to population ratios. Select a state and county and "primary care providers" to view a list of primary care provider ratios for every county within a state.
Organizations: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The Future of Rural Health
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Offers a policy brief on rural health issues. Includes sections on primary care, workforce and education, and new models of care.
Organization: National Rural Health Association
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Care Access, National, Primary Care, Rural, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA): NHSC Fulfillment of Primary Care HPSA Needs Summary
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Lists the number of primary care shortage areas, the number of practitioners needed to remove the shortage designation, the number of National Health Service Corps (NHSC) providers with FTE, and the percent of the total shortage need filled by the NHSC for each state and U.S. Territory.
Organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Primary Care, Shortage Designations, State-by-State, Supply and Demand
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Health Resources and Services Administration: FY 2013 Annual Performance Appendix
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Reports on performance measures for the Health Resources and Services Administration. Addresses the National Health Service Corps, nursing education loan repayment and scholarship programs, health professions training programs, and the children's hospitals graduate medical education payment program on pages 15-28. Includes Affordable Care Act (ACA) measures on pages 25-6.
Organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, Education and Training, Financial Aid, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Home Health Aides and Home Care Aides, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Midwives, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs
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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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National Health Service Corps (NHSC): Current Provider FTE Summary by State Report
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Identifies the number of full-time equivalent health care providers in the National Health Service Corps by state with breakdowns for urban and rural areas and type of care provided (primary, mental, or dental health care). Includes U.S. Territories and the District of Columbia.
Organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Dental Occupations, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, State-by-State
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Second Biennial Report: Health Issues for the State of North Dakota, 2013
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Discusses the state of health and the health care workforce in North Dakota. Highlights data on the health care workforce including supply, distribution, and demographics. Covers strategies for recruitment, retention, education and training, and workforce pipeline. Lists workforce pipeline activities in appendix.
Organizations: University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Dental Occupations, Dentists, Diversity, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, North Dakota, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Pharmacy Technicians and Aides, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand, Workforce Pipeline
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Telemedicine: Changing the Landscape of Rural Physician Practice
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Discusses how telemedicine helps rural primary care physicians provide better care and allows specialists to care for patients in rural and underserved areas.
Author: Darves B
Location: NEJM CareerCenter
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Twenty-Seventh Annual Report on Physician Assistant Educational Programs in the United States, 2010-2011
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Additional Link: Presentation of Preliminary Data
Provides detailed information on physician assistant education programs. Covers program requirements, faculty, students, recruitment strategies, primary care specialty choice, salaries, financial aid, demographics, and more. Includes the survey instrument used.
Organization: Physician Assistant Education Association
Date: 2013
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Diversity, Education and Training, Faculty, Financial Aid, National, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages - Meeting, December 7, 2012
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Offers an update on behavioral health activities of the Health Resources and Services Administration. Introduces potential topics for the annual committee report including allied health in interprofessional care, oral health, and interprofessional teams.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary Community-Based Linkages
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: Allied Health, Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, National, Primary Care, Public Health
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General Medicine vs Subspecialty Career Plans among Internal Medicine Residents
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Link: Abstract
Examines whether internal medicine residents plan to go into primary care or a subspecialty. Addresses whether they are currently in a primary care training program, their gender, whether they are a US or international medical graduate, and changes in career plans.
Author: West CP, Dupras DM
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 308(21), 2241-7
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: General Internal Medicine Physicians, International Medical Graduates, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Specialty Choice
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How Much Will Medicaid Physician Fees for Primary Care Rise in 2013? Evidence from a 2012 Survey of Medicaid Physician Fees
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Additional Link: Policy Brief
Examines the impact of an Affordable Care Act requirement for states to increase Medicaid fees for certain primary care services to Medicare levels for 2013 and 2014. Discusses the potential impact on physicians’ participation in Medicaid. Includes the Medicaid‐to‐Medicare Fee Index and percent change for each state.
Organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, State-by-State
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Indiana Primary Health Care: Description, Distribution, Challenges, & Strategic Recommendation to Empowered Decision Making
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Addresses the capacity and distribution of Indiana's primary care workforce. Supports creating an Indiana Center for Health Workforce. Identifies strategies used by other states to centralize health workforce data. Discusses funding options.
Organization: Indiana Center for Health Policy
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Indiana, Policy, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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NHSC Clinician Retention: A Story of Dedication and Commitment
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Discusses retention outcomes achieved through the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) scholarship and loan repayment programs. Provides data on the short and long-term rates of retention for 2000 and 2012 for all NHSC programs, primary care, oral health, and behavioral health providers. Covers factors that impact retention.
Organization: HRSA National Health Service Corps
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Financial Aid, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Marriage and Family Therapists, Mental Health Counselors, Midwives, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychologists, Recruitment and Retention, Social Workers
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Residential Segregation and the Availability of Primary Care Physicians
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Link: Abstract
Examines the association between residential segregation and geographic access to primary care physicians (PCPs) in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). Identifies higher odds of being a primary care shortage area for zip codes with a majority of African Americans.
Author: Gaskin DJ, Dinwiddie GY, Chan KS, McCleary RR
Location: Health Services Research, 47(6), 2353-76
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Shortage Designations
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Roadmap to a Healthier Minnesota: Recommendations of the Minnesota Health Reform Task Force
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Summarizes recommendations for improving health care in Minnesota. Addresses care coordination, behavioral health and primary care integration, increasing workforce supply, workforce education and training, scope of practice restrictions for nurses, loan repayment programs, Medicare reimbursement, diversity of the workforce and more.
Organization: Minnesota Department of Health
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Diversity, Education and Training, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Medicare and Medicaid, Minnesota, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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The Role of Nurse Practitioners in Meeting Increasing Demand for Primary Care
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Discusses the role of nurse practitioners in meeting the demand for primary care. Covers the impact of the Affordable Care Act on demand. Summarizes literature on state nurse practitioner scope of practice rules with state-by-state results in appendix.
Organization: National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
Author: Schiff M
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, State-by-State, Supply and Demand
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Teaching Health Centers: A New Paradigm in Graduate Medical Education
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Additional Link: Abstract
Addresses the work of the first teaching health centers (THCs) and implications for primary care training, the graduate medical education (GME) system, and future policies and legislation aimed at strengthening the health care workforce.
Author: Chen C, Chen F, Mullan F
Location: Academic Medicine, 87(12), 1752-6
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Trends and Emerging Issues
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TeamSTEPPS: Primary Care Version
Curricula
Offers materials for medical offices that wish to apply TeamSTEPPS principles. Updates the core concepts of the TeamSTEPPS program to reflect the environment of primary care office-based teams. Includes examples, discussions, and exercises.
Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Clinics, National, Primary Care
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Wisconsin Physician Workforce Report
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Additional Links: Executive Summary, Methodology Notes, Survey Instrument
Reports data from a survey of physicians in Wisconsin. Covers current and projected supply and demand, specialties, primary care, demographics, hours worked, and distribution. Includes detailed data starting on page 36. Offers data on recruitment and retention of medical graduates in appendix G.
Organization: Wisconsin AHEC Program
Author: Sugden N, Udalova V, Walsh T,
Date: 12/2012
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand, Wisconsin
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2011 State Physician Workforce Data Book: Online Tool
Map
Provides interactive maps displaying workforce measures from the 2011 State Physician Workforce Data Book. Shows variations in state physician supply and retention, medical school enrollment, and graduate medical education.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, International Medical Graduates, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs, State-by-State, Supply and Demand
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2012 Physician Specialty Data Book
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Provides detailed statistics about active physicians and physicians in training in the specialties with the largest number of active physicians.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, International Medical Graduates, National, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Supply and Demand
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Minutes of Webinar Meeting, November 1, 2012
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Addresses the Interprofessional Oral Health Clinical Competencies (IPOHCC) and the committee's Tenth Report on Interprofessional Education. Identifies a topic for the committee's next report, building collaborations and developing partnerships in primary care practice.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Dental Occupations, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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After-Hours Care and Its Coordination with Primary Care in the U.S.
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Links: Abstract, Key Findings
Identifies and describes models of after-hours care that are delivered in primary care sites or coordinated with a patient's usual primary care provider. Addresses clinician buy-in, communication, continuity of care, and more.
Organization: Center for Studying Health System Change
Author: O'Malley AS, Samuel D, Bond AM, Carrier E
Location: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 27(11), 1406-15
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Building New York's Medical Homes: Learning from Eight Pioneers to Move the Model Forward
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Provides an overview of eight medical home models. Covers implementation, payment models, data collection and analysis, and sustainability. Addresses some care coordination and staffing challenges. Highlights the importance of physician leadership and nurse care managers.
Organization: Primary Care Development Corporation
Author: Lowenstein D, Wetterman T, Dougherty C
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Care Quality, New York, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Characteristics of Primary Care Office Visits to Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and Physicians in United States Veterans Health Administration Facilities, 2005 to 2010: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Analysis
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Analyzes the use of physician assistants and nurse practitioners in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care facilities. Examines the medical complexity of their patients compared to physicians.
Author: Morgan PA, Abbott DH, McNeil RB, Fisher DA
Location: Human Resources for Health, 10:42
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Evolution of Patient-Centered Medical Homes in New York State: Current Status and Trends as of September 2012
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Updates the status of patient-centered medical home (PCMH) adoption in New York State. Identifies the total number of providers working in medical homes, which includes physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Covers distribution, practice type, providers per population, and NCQA level.
Author: Burke G, United Hospital Fund
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, New York, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Graduate Medical Education and Primary Care Workforce: A CERA Study
Document
Reports on a survey of family medicine residency directors regarding Council on Graduate Medical Education
(COGME) recommendations to increase the percent of physicians going into primary care and to lengthen training requirements.
Author: Carek PJ, Peterson L, Shokar NK, et al
Location: Family Medicine, 44(10), 712-5
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Graduate Medical Education for Teaching Hospitals in Fiscal Years 2000-2010
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Identifies payments to teaching hospitals by state and hospital name with breakdowns for direct and indirect graduate medical education payments through Medicare. Lists primary care and non-primary care full-time equivalents (FTE) and the number of beds for each hospital.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Allopathic Physicians, Hospitals, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, State-by-State
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Medicaid Primary Care Rate Increase: Next Steps for State Implementation
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Presents the steps for state's implementation of the Medicaid reimbursement rate increases for primary care services. Discusses the coverage of new eligible providers.
Organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
Author: Bricklin-Small D, McGinnis T
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, Midwives, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Primary Care Physicians by Field, November 2012
Web site
Identifies the number of primary care providers by state and specialty based on state licensing information. Includes bar graphs, tables, and a feature for creating maps.
Organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, State-by-State, Supply and Demand
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Projecting US Primary Care Physician Workforce Needs: 2010-2025
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Offers updated supply and demand projections for primary care physicians through 2025. Addresses the impact of the Affordable Care Act.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Petterson SM, Liaw WR, Phillips RL Jr, et al
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 10(6), 503-9
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Rethinking the Mental Health Treatment Skills of Primary Care Staff: A Framework for Training and Research
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Link: Abstract
Provides a framework describing mental health skills for primary care receptionists, medical assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physicians. Discusses the importance of building the mental health treatment capacity of primary care through the primary care team and related funding from the Affordable Care Act.
Author: Brown JD, Wissow LS
Location: Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 39(6), 489-502
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Education and Training, Health Reform, Medical Assistants, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care
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Team-based Primary Care in an Academic Clinic - Lessons from the General Medical Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital
Video or multimedia
Provides a recording of a webinar offering lessons from a residency clinic that became a patient-centered medical home. Describes the creation of multidisciplinary teams. Addresses role definition, communication practices, and challenges faced.
Organization: Primary Care Progress
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, California, Care Coordination, Clinics, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Vermont Physician Assistants 2012 Survey: Statistical Report
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Additional Link: Summary
Reports on a survey of physician assistants in Vermont. Includes demographics, supply, distribution by specialty and county, practice characteristics, and comparisons to previous surveys. Identifies the percent accepting new Medicaid and Medicare patients.
Organization: Vermont Department of Health
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Medicare and Medicaid, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Vermont
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Will There Be Enough Providers to Meet the Need? Provider Capacity and the ACA
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Provides a brief on provider supply and access given the anticipated expansion of health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Identifies strategies to help based on interviews with stakeholders from ten states.
Organizations: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Urban Institute
Author: Hill I
Date: 11/2012
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Colorado, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Maryland, National, Oregon, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Combatting Physician Workforce Shortages by Addressing Chronic Disease and the Workforce Pipeline: A Model from North Dakota
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Provides a Q&A with Dr. Joshua Wynne, Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Highlights the school's collaboration with legislators and other partners to expand enrollment, increase residency positions, start a Master of Public Health program, and support rural recruitment.
Organization: Health Workforce Information Center
Location: Health Workforce News
Date: 10/2012
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, North Dakota, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Draft Curriculum - Clinical Practice: Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice in Integrated Healthcare
Curricula
Provides information on the draft version of curriculum for a course on the integration of social workers in behavioral health primary care. Offers a syllabus and 15 modules.
Organizations: Council on Social Work Education, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Date: 10/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Education and Training, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Primary Care, Social Workers
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Draft Curriculum - Policy and Services: Integrated Health Policy and Services
Curricula
Provides information on the draft version of curriculum for a course on policy relating to the integration of social workers in behavioral health primary care. Offers a syllabus and 8 modules.
Organizations: Council on Social Work Education, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Date: 10/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Education and Training, National, Policy, Primary Care, Social Workers
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High-Intensity Primary Care: Lessons for Physician and Patient Engagement
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Discusses models of high-intensity primary care. Covers the role of physicians, care coordinators, and other primary care teams members in various models of care. Offers six example programs.
Organizations: Center for Studying Health System Change, National Institute for Health Care Reform
Author: Yee R, Lechner AE, Carrier E,
Date: 10/2012
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, National, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care
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North Dakota State Health Workforce Planning Report: State Workforce Development Planning Grant – Final Report, October, 2012
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Lists benchmarks for addressing health care workforce planning in North Dakota. Covers supply and distribution of providers, recruitment and retention efforts, education and training programs, licensure requirements, and political barriers to workforce development. Funded by HRSA State Planning Grant.
Organization: University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Date: 10/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Education and Training, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Licensure and Certification, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, North Dakota, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Public Health, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Supply and Demand
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Results of the 2012 National Resident Matching Program: Family Medicine
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Examines family medicine residency positions filled for 2002-2012. Identifies trends in the percent filled by MDs, DOs, US citizen international medical graduates (IMGs) and non-citizen IMGs. Includes Match results by region. Compares family medicine to other primary care specialties.
Author: Bieck AD, Biggs WS, Crosley PW, Kozakowski SM
Location: Family Medicine, 44(9), 615-9
Date: 10/2012
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Specialty Choice, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Statewide Health Care Facilities and Services Plan
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Reports on a study of Connecticut's health care facilities and services. Identifies gaps in primary care access and unmet need. Addresses the health workforce on pages 15-20, 122-3, and 160-1. Lists the number of licensed practitioners, mean age, percent over 60, and rate per population in Appendix D.
Organization: Connecticut Department of Public Health
Date: 10/2012
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Tagged keywords: Audiologists, Behavioral Health Occupations, Chiropractors, Connecticut, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Dietitians and Nutritionists, Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics, Health Care Access, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Marriage and Family Therapists, Mental Health Counselors, Midwives, Nursing Occupations, Occupational Therapy Occupations, Optometrists, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Podiatrists, Primary Care, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors, Supply and Demand
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United States Atlas of the Surgical Workforce
Map
Offers a mapping tool that displays the supply and distribution of surgeons, general surgeons, physicians, and primary care physicians. Includes county-level data and an option to display urban/rural counties.
Organization: American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute
Date: 10/2012
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Tagged keywords: General Surgeons, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Visits for Primary Care Services to Primary Care and Specialty Care Physicians, 1999 and 2007
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Link: Extract
Compares how frequently patients visit generalists versus specialists for primary care services using national data. Highlights the implications for the primary care physician workforce.
Author: Kale MS, Federman AD, Ross JS
Location: Archives of Internal Medicine, 172(18), 1421-3
Date: 10/2012
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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American Association of Colleges of Nursing Clarification Letter
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Provides the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) counter-opinion to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) white paper, Primary Care for the 21st Century. Offers clarification of the AACN's position on nurse practitioner scope of practice.
Organization: American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Author: Kirschling J
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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Clinics and Hospitals Use Trained, Certified Community Members to Screen and Support Primary Care and Postdischarge Patients, Reducing Physician Visits and Costs
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Describes the "grand-aide", a new position at primary care clinics and hospitals that assists in the initial screening of patients seeking care. Addresses the certification, training, and scope of practice for this position. Discusses the successes realized by facilities using "grand-aides".
Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, National, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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Community Health Workers: A Front Line for Primary Care?
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Describes the profession of community health workers. Discusses training, job duties, recruitment, job outlook and their role in primary care and care access in rural locations.
Organization: National Health Policy Forum
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: Community Health Workers, Education and Training, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Care Access, National, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural
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Economic Impact of Rural Health Care
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Identifies the economic impact of hospital construction, primary care physicians, general surgeons, and pharmacists on rural communities.
Organization: National Center for Rural Health Works
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: General Surgeons, National, Pharmacists, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Eliminating Disparities through the Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care Services for Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations, Including Individuals with Limited English Proficiency: A Literature Review Report
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Discusses the treatment of behavioral health conditions in primary care settings in order to increase access for a diverse population. Addresses cultural and linguistic competence on pages 16-17 and the workforce on pages 18-19. Highlights the role of community health workers.
Organizations: HHS Office of Minority Health, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Author: Sanchez K, Chapa T, Ybarra R, Martinez O,
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Community Health Workers, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Care Access, National, Primary Care
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Estimating a Reasonable Patient Panel Size for Primary Care Physicians with Team-Based Task Delegation
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Examines how delegation to nonphysician team members can allow primary care physicians to provide recommended preventive and chronic care visits despite the physician shortage. Offers panel size recommendations for primary care teams.
Author: Altschuler J, Margolius D, Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 10(5), 396-400
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Estimating the Need for a General Surgeon based on the Demand for Primary Care Practitioners in the Medical Service Area
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Provides a methodology to estimate the need for general surgery based on available primary care services. Identifies this as a method that could be used for other specialty services as well.
Organization: National Center for Rural Health Works
Author: Eilrich FC, Sprague JC, St. Clair CF, Doeksen GA
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: General Surgeons, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Generalist and Specialty Physicians: Supply and Access, 2009–2010
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Presents data on physician shortages and access to care for generalist physicians and specialists. Compares generalist and specialist supply, new patient and Medicaid/Medicare acceptance rates, average wait times and more.
Organization: National Center for Health Statistics
Author: Hing E, Schappert S
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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New Jersey State Health Workforce Planning Report: New Jersey State Health Workforce Development Planning Grant Final Report, September 2012
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Additional Link: Final Recommendations
Examines current and future health workforce needs for New Jersey. Offers recommendations to address them. Addresses alignment of education and workforce demand, workforce data collection, existing resources and partnerships, and licensing and certification barriers. Funded by a HRSA state planning grant.
Organizations: New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Reform, Licensure and Certification, New Jersey, Policy, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Supply and Demand
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Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, California Workforce Investment Board, Health Workforce Development Council: Career Pathway Sub-Committee, Updated Report
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Discusses the formation of career pathways for seven health care professions in California. Provides information on the steps involved in creating the pathways. Includes a detailed description of each profession's pathway and education and licensure requirements in appendices.
Organization: California Workforce Investment Board
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, California, Community Health Workers, Education and Training, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Laboratory Professionals, Licensure and Certification, Medical Assistants, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Public Health, Social Workers, Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors
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Prevention and Public Health Fund: Activities Funded in Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011
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Additional Link: Highlights
Identifies Prevention and Public Health Funds awarded due to the Affordable Care Act. Lists health workforce related grantees pages 70-4, 120-1, and Appendix III. Covers the public health workforce, primary care training, advanced nursing education, nurse managed clinics, state health workforce grants, and primary and behavioral health care integration.
Organization: Government Accountability Office
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Clinics, Education and Training, Health Reform, Midwives, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health, Residency Programs
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Primary Care for the 21st Century: Ensuring a Quality Physician-Led Team for Every Patient: Full Report
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Additional Link: Additional Resources
Discusses the role of physicians in patient centered medical homes. Compares the education and training of physicians and nurse practitioners. Advocates for a physician-led model and expresses the American Academy of Family Physicians opinion on limiting unsupervised practice by nurse practitioners.
Organization: American Academy of Family Physicians
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care
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Trends in Medical Education in North Carolina
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Reports the current state of medical education in North Carolina. Includes data on medical students per capita, supply of international medical graduates, primary care specialty choice, physicians distribution between rural and urban areas, import and export of medical students and more.
Organization: Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
Author: Fraher E, Newton H, Lyons J
Date: 9/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Immigration, North Carolina, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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2012 Indiana Primary Care Clinician Workforce Report
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Describes the primary care workforce in Indiana, their demographics, practice settings, and geographic locations. Addresses supply by county and full-time equivalents (FTEs) nearing retirement. Includes FTEs per 100,000 population for each rural county in the state.
Organization: Indiana AHEC Program
Author: Lewis CK, Sheff, ZT, Zollinger TW, Allen DI
Date: 8/2012
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Tagged keywords: Indiana, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Active Primary Care Physicians in Nebraska: Data Comparison, Supply, and Characteristics
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Reports data on primary care physicians in Nebraska. Includes statistics on supply demographics, and specialty. Compares the results of Nebraska data collection to data from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile.
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center: Center for Health Policy
Author: Bhuyan SS, Deras M, Stimpson JP
Date: 8/2012
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, Nebraska, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Advancing Primary Care: Opportunities to Support Care Delivery Redesign in Practices Serving Medicaid and Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patients
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Reports on a survey of primary care practices serving a high percentage of Medicaid beneficiaries regarding barriers and facilitators for advanced primary care. Identifies understaffing and reimbursement policies as barriers to improvement. Addresses training needs.
Organizations: Center for Health Care Strategies, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 8/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Estimating the Number and Characteristics of Hospitalist Physicians in the United States and Their Possible Workforce Implications
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Additional Link: Supplemental Information
Offers a brief analysis of the hospitalist workforce supply based on a survey of primary care physicians. Identifies their specialty, gender, and age. Discusses the workforce implications of hospitalists, especially in relation to primary care.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Date: 8/2012
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Tagged keywords: Hospitals, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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In 2011 Nearly One-Third of Physicians Said They Would Not Accept New Medicaid Patients, but Rising Fees May Help
Document
Link: Abstract
Discusses the impact of the Affordable Care Act on primary care physicians' acceptance of new Medicaid patients. Includes data on acceptance rates in relation to Medicaid fee levels, provider demographics, and other variables.
Author: Decker S
Location: Health Affairs, 31(8), 1673-9
Date: 8/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Organizational Climate in Primary Care Settings: Implications for Nurse Practitioner Practice
Document
Link: Abstract
Presents a review of the literature on organizational climate for nurse practitioners. Covers NP autonomy, relationship with physicians and NP visibility as primary care providers.
Author: Poghosyan L, Nannini A, Clarke S
Location: Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 25 (3), 134-140
Date: 8/2012
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Scope of Practice
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Taking Integration to the Next Level: The Role of New Service Delivery Models in Behavioral Health
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Addresses the implications of health homes and accountable care organizations for state behavioral health agencies. Highlights the workforce impacts of different delivery models on pages 10-12.
Organization: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Author: Miller J
Date: 8/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Washington State Primary Care Provider Survey, 2011-2012: Summary of Findings
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Reports results from a survey of primary care providers in Washington. Includes data on supply, distribution, demographics, education, medicaid acceptance rates and more. Offers survey instrument in appendices.
Organization: WWAMI Center for Health Workforce Studies
Author: Skillman SM, Fordyce MA, Yen W, Mounts T,
Date: 8/2012
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Education and Training, Medicare and Medicaid, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand, Washington
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Washington State Primary Care Workforce: Summary of Physician Focus Group Findings
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Reports the results of a survey on the changing role of primary care physicians in Washington State under the Affordable Care Act. Discusses incentives and disincentives to primary care specialty selection, medicaid acceptance and reimbursement, new service delivery models, and the use of electronic medical records.
Organization: WWAMI Center for Health Workforce Studies
Author: Matthews B, Mounts T
Date: 8/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Washington
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Minutes of Meeting - July 19-20, 2012
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Summarizes presentations on the Tri-Board Primary Care Faculty Development Initiative, performance measures for HRSA grants, and oral health competencies for non-dental health care providers. Addresses the committee's 10th report on interprofessional education and possible topics for their next report.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 7/2012
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Faculty, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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American Primary Care Physicians' Decisions to Leave Their Practice: Evidence from the 2009 Commonwealth Fund Survey of Primary Care Doctors
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Link: Abstract
Examines factors that contribute to primary care physicians plans to leave their medical practices. Compares to factors that predict plans to retire.
Author: Gray BH, Stockley K, Zuckerman S
Location: Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 3(3), 187-194
Date: 7/2012
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Closing the Quality Gap Series: The Patient-Centered Medical Home
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Reviews the literature on primary care-based patient-centered medical home (PCMH) interventions and effects. Addresses the impact on staff and patient experiences. Supports additional research on the impact of the PCMH on staff retention.
Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Author: Williams JW, Jackson GL, Powers BJ, et al
Date: 7/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, National, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Implementing the IOM Future of Nursing Report–Part III: How Nurses Are Solving Some of Primary Care’s Most Pressing Challenges
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Presents the third of a four-part mini-series on the IOM report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Highlights innovative care models and policies that take advantage of nursing's strengths in primary care.
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Author: Fauteux N
Location: Charting Nursing's Future, 18, 1-8
Date: 7/2012
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Pennsylvania, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues, Vermont
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Maryland Physician Race and Ethnicity Report (2010-2011)
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Examines the diversity of Maryland's physician workforce in comparison to population demographics. Provides further analysis based on practice setting, adoption of electronic medical records, primary care versus specialist, and county.
Organization: Maryland Health Care Commission
Author: Tanio CP, Steffen B
Date: 7/2012
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Maryland, Physicians, Primary Care
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National Health Services Corps Clinician Retention Project: Organizational Retention Survey Results
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Reports results from a survey of Idaho National Health Service Corps (NHSC) loan repayment sites on recruitment and retention practices. Covers the factors impacting recruitment decisions and the details of their retention strategies. Highlights mental health and primary care.
Organization: Idaho State Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Author: Powell L
Date: 7/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Idaho, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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New York's Primary Care Workforce: Who Contributes? A Preliminary Analysis
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Examines the contributions of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and midwives to primary care services in New York. Identifies average work hours, distribution by practice setting and region, training location, and demographics.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Date: 7/2012
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Tagged keywords: Midwives, New York, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care
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Workforce Work Group Priority Recommendations to the Governor’s Health Care Reform Taskforce
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Discusses 10 recommendations for addressing health care workforce issues in Minnesota. Covers scope of practice, supply, diversity, and more. Supports wage increases for long-term care workers, expanding telehealth programs, licensing foreign-certified physicians, and growing loan forgiveness programs.
Organization: Minnesota Department of Health
Date: 7/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Compensation, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Diversity, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Care Access, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Home Health Aides and Home Care Aides, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Minnesota, Nursing Aides, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physician Assistants, Policy, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Scope of Practice, Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors, Supply and Demand
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2010 Pulse of Pennsylvania's Physician and Physician Assistant Workforce: A Report on the 2010 Surveys of Physicians and Physician Assistants
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Provides detailed information on the physician and physician assistant workforce in Pennsylvania, including Medicare/Medicaid acceptance. Includes specialty information and the number of various primary care physicians in each county in the state. Offers the survey instrument used.
Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Health
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Medicare and Medicaid, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Pennsylvania, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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Action Plan for Building the Nursing Workforce for Primary Care
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Provides a summary of the California Institute for Nursing & Health Care action plan to reform the education of nurses. Discusses current activities, anticipated outcomes, and timelines for implementing the plan's objectives. Addresses workforce shortages, low school capacities, and the need for nurses in primary care.
Organization: California Institute for Nursing & Health Care
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: California, Education and Training, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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Arizona Rural Health Workforce Trend Analysis 2007 - 2010
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Additional Link: Policy Brief
Provides state, rural, and urban health care workforce distribution comparisons and trends in Arizona. Includes data on supply, distribution, and demographics for health care professionals. Offers data for each county in appendix B.
Organizations: Arizona AHEC Program - University of Arizona, Arizona Center for Rural Health
Author: Tabor J, Eng H,
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Arizona, Behavioral Health Occupations, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Diversity, Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Osteopathic Physicians, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Pharmacy Technicians and Aides, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Best Principles for Integration of Child Psychiatry into the Pediatric Health Home
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Outlines the best principles for integrating child and adolescent psychiatry into the pediatric health home to provide access to high quality mental health care.
Organization: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists
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Community Health Centers and Primary Care Teaching: A Look at the Future
Video or multimedia
Offers an archived webinar regarding the future of training primary care providers in community health centers.
Organization: Clinical Directors Network
Author: Geiger HJ
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Federally Qualified Health Centers, National, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Enhancing the Delivery of Health Care: Eliminating Health Disparities through a Culturally & Linguistically Centered Integrated Health Care Approach: Consensus Statements and Recommendations
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Provides recommendations for the integration of behavioral health treatment into primary care and improved cultural competence from an expert panel meeting on November 7th, 2011 in Austin, TX. Highlights the workforce on pages 13-14. Includes examples of model programs.
Organizations: HHS Office of Minority Health, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Author: Sanchez K, Chapa T, Tbarra R, Martinez O,
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Best Practices and Model Programs, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Health Care Access, National, Primary Care
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Facilitating Improvement in Primary Care: The Promise of Practice Coaching
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Also called practice facilitation, practice coaching assists physician practices to improve in areas of patient access, preventive care, electronic medical records, and cultural competence. Discusses primary care practice coaches in the workforce and what experience and training is needed.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Grumbach K, Bainbridge E, Bodenheimer T
Location: Commonwealth Issue Brief 1605, 15, 1-14
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Education and Training, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Idaho State Health Workforce Planning Report: Idaho Health Care Workforce Planning Grant - Final Report for Project Period: 9/30/2010 – 6/30/2012
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Examines the health care workforce in Idaho. Includes data on supply, projections of high-need occupations, and vacancies. Covers recruitment and retention, education, loan repayment programs, licensure requirements, government policies, and more. Provides recommendations for state workforce policy. Offers detailed information on the physician workforce in attachment. Funded by HRSA State Planning Grant.
Organization: Idaho Department of Labor
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Idaho, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Licensure and Certification, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Supply and Demand
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MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System
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Includes chapters on care coordination, fee-for-service, Medicare Advantage, dual-eligibility, home infusion therapy, and rural Medicare beneficiaries. Discusses health care workforce throughout.
Organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Primary Care, Rural
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Osteopathic Physicians and International Medical Graduates in the Rural Primary Care Physician Workforce
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Describes the 2005 supply of two important components of the rural primary care physician workforce: rural osteopaths (DOs) and international medical graduates (IMGs).
Author: Fordyce M, Doescher M, Chen F, Hart G
Location: Family Medicine, 44(6), 396-403
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: International Medical Graduates, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care Workforce Project Report
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Highlights a one-day rural Primary Care Symposium which featured focus groups that gathered input from a variety of community members about improving access to primary care services, raising awareness of local and state efforts to recruit ND youth for health care (specifically primary care) professions, and encouraging ND youth to remain in or return to the state
after graduation.
Organizations: Dakota Medical Foundation, University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Author: Wynne J, Hart G, Dickson L
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, North Dakota, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Residency Locations in North Dakota
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This fact sheet is Number 6 in a series of analyses regarding physicians in North Dakota.
Organization: University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health
Author: Hart G, Klug M, Peterson M
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, North Dakota, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs, Rural, Supply and Demand
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West Baltimore Primary Care Access Assessment & Strategic Planning Project: Final Report
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Examines the primary care safety net in West Baltimore and community health needs, particularly the impact of the Affordable Care Act. Offers recommendations. Addresses workforce shortages and access to dental, primary and behavioral health care providers.
Organization: Mid-Atlantic Association of Community Health Centers
Date: 6/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Maryland, Primary Care
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Characteristics of US Medical Graduates and International Medical Graduates in North Dakota
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Reports data on the demographics, work location, distribution, year of graduation, and specialty for medical graduates and international medical graduates in North Dakota. This fact sheet is part of a series of analyses regarding physicians in North Dakota.
Organization: University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health
Author: Hart G, Klug M, Peterson M
Date: 5/2012
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, International Medical Graduates, North Dakota, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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An Environmental Scan: Delaware's Healthcare Workforce: Current and Projected
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Presents and overview of issues affecting Delaware's health care system and health workforce demand. Includes some data on health care occupations from various sources. Identifies next steps.
Organization: Delaware Health Care Commission
Date: 5/2012
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Tagged keywords: Delaware, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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In Setting Doctors’ Medicare Fees, CMS Almost Always Accepts the Relative Value Update Panel’s Advice on Work Values
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Link: Abstract
Examines whether the process the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses to update physician payments penalizes primary care providers. Offers policy recommendations.
Author: Laugesen MJ, Wada R, Chen EM
Location: Health Affairs, 31(5), 965-72
Date: 5/2012
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Increased Medicaid Payment for Primary Care Services Under the Affordable Care Act: Overview and CMS Implementation
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Details the Affordable Care Act provision that increases Medicaid primary care physician fees to match Medicare fees for 2013-4 to increase care access for Medicaid patients. Discusses implementation and key issues such as who qualifies as primary care.
Organizations: George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Author: Rosenbaum S
Date: 5/2012
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Primary Care Incentive Program Payments for 2011
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Reports on Medicare incentive payments to primary care providers in 2011 as authorized by the Affordable Care Act. Identifies bonus payment distribution by specialty, state, type of provider and urban/rural location.
Organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Date: 5/2012
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Tagged keywords: Clinical Nurse Specialists, Compensation, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Geriatrics, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Primary Care Physicians in Delaware 2011
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Reports on the demographics, practice characteristics, and distribution of primary care physicians in Delaware. Includes the number per county, state of medical school graduation and residency, the percent accepting new Medicaid/Medicare patients by county, use of non-physicians, and more. Includes the survey instrument.
Organizations: Delaware Office of Primary Care & Rural Health, University of Delaware Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research
Author: Toth T
Date: 5/2012
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Tagged keywords: Delaware, Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Geriatrics, Medicare and Medicaid, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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A Profile of Colorado’s Rural Physicians: Colorado Rural Physician Survey: A Chart Pack
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Additional Link: Chart Pack
Provides a snapshot of Colorado's rural physicians, including why they practice in rural areas, what keeps them working in their communities, and the demands placed on their practices.
Organization: Colorado Health Institute
Date: 5/2012
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Tagged keywords: Colorado, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages - Meeting, April 24, 2012
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Summarizes expert presentations on primary care and public health integration, interprofessional education, and culturally competent and community-based prevention.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary Community-Based Linkages
Date: 4/2012
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Tagged keywords: Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, North Carolina, Primary Care, Public Health
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The Building Blocks of High-Performing Primary Care: Lessons from the Field
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Examines how high-performing practices are adopting the patient-centered medical home model. Addresses empanelment; keys to successful team-based care; the role of medical assistants, registered nurses, and other providers; panel management; care continuity; and prompt access to care.
Organization: California Healthcare Foundation
Author: Willard R, Bodenheimer T
Date: 4/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Best Practices and Model Programs, California, Care Coordination, Colorado, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Medical Assistants, Nursing Occupations, Oregon, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Trends and Emerging Issues, Washington
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Ensuring Access to After-Hours Care
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Provides international models of how physicians provide access to primary care on nights and weekends. Addresses physician workload.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Squires D
Date: 4/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, International, Physicians, Primary Care
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Medical School Rural Programs: A Comparison with International Medical Graduates in Addressing State-Level Rural Family Physician and Primary Care Supply
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Link: Abstract
Compares how likely rural program graduates and international medical graduates are to practice rural primary care using data from three rural programs.
Author: Rabinowitz HK, Petterson S, Boulger JG, et al
Location: Academic Medicine, 87(4), 488-92
Date: 4/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, Illinois, International Medical Graduates, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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The Productivity and Cost-Efficiency of Models for Involving Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care: A Perspective from Queueing Analysis
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Link: Abstract
Examines the productivity and cost-efficiencies of practice models using nurse practitioners and primary care physicians by comparing a solo physician model, a supervision model, and a shared-panel model using a systems modeling approach.
Author: Liu N, D'Aunno T
Location: Health Services Research, 47(2), 594-613
Date: 4/2012
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care
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Snapshot: Health Centers More Likely to Utilize Non-Physician Clinicians than Other Primary Care Offices
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Provides a brief comparing employment of non-physician clinicians at community health centers to other settings.
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Date: 4/2012
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, National, Primary Care
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Which U.S. Medical Schools Are Providing the Most Physicians for the Appalachian Region of the United States?
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Identifies medical schools with the most graduates practicing in rural, urban, and economically distressed areas of Appalachia based on data from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile.
Author: Baker HH, Pathman DE, Nemitz JW, et al
Location: Academic Medicine, 87(4), 498-505
Date: 4/2012
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Education and Training, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia
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2011 New York Residency Training Outcomes: A Summary of Responses to the 2011 New York Resident Exit Survey
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Reports on an exit survey of physicians completing residency and fellowship programs in New York by specialty. Covers perceptions of job market, demographics, student debt, in-state retention, international medical graduates, subspecialization, starting income, and more.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Author: Armstrong DP and Forte GJ
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Geriatrics, International Medical Graduates, New York, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Residency Programs, Student Debt Load, Supply and Demand
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The Changing Role of Nurses
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Discusses the expanding role of nurses in helping provide coordinated, team-based care. Addresses the report, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health."
Author: Howell WLJ
Location: Hospitals & Health Networks
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Education and Training, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Scope of Practice, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Data Tables from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) 2012 Match
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Provides residency matching trends for pediatrics and primary care physician specialties in a slide format. Includes data on international medical school graduates.
Organization: AAP Division of Workforce and Medical Education Policy
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: General Pediatricians, International Medical Graduates, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Health Wanted: The State of Unmet Need for Primary Health Care in America
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Additional Link: Chartpack
Provides an overview of barriers to accessing primary care and how health centers help overcome them. Addresses the shortage of primary care providers and the need for culturally competent care on pages 11-14.
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, National, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Medicaid and Community Health Centers: The Relationship between Coverage for Adults and Primary Care Capacity in Medically Underserved Communities
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Addresses how community health centers improve access to care in underserved communities for Medicaid patients. Includes a section on the community health center workforce on pages 8-9.
Organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care
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Medicare Costs and Surgeon Supply in Hospital Service Areas
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Link: Abstract
Examines whether physician supply and specialty has a significant relationship with cost variation based on Medicare beneficiary costs. Addresses the ratio of international medical graduates, primary care physicians, general surgeons, and surgical subspecialitsts to population.
Organization: American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute
Author: Ricketts TC, Belsky DW
Location: Annals of Surgery, 255(3), 474-7
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: General Surgeons, International Medical Graduates, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The Myth of the Lone Physician: Toward a Collaborative Alternative
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Addresses the transition from physician-centered practices to primary care teams. Lists questions to help define team members' roles and tasks. Discusses changes in physicians' roles and other changes needed to support their new roles.
Author: Saba GW, Villela TJ, Chen E, Hammer H, Bodenheimer T
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 10(2), 169-73
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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New York State Health Workforce Planning Report: Transforming the Health Workforce for a New New York
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Offers key findings, recommendations, action items and next steps, and a plan to address New York's health workforce challenges. Addresses the impact of the Affordable Care Act. Funded by a HRSA state planning grant.
Organization: New York State Workforce Investment Board
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Reform, New York, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand, Workforce Pipeline
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The Next Phase of Title VII Funding for Training Primary Care Physicians for America’s Health Care Needs
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Discusses the implications of the primary care shortage, reasons why less physicians are going into primary care, and related policies. Supports increasing Title VII, Section 747's investments in primary care training.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Phillips RL Jr, Turner BJ
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 10(2), 163-8
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Paying More for Primary Care: Can It Help Bend the Medicare Cost Curve?
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Additional Link: Technical Appendices
Analyzes the potential effects of making the increase in Medicare primary care provider payments from the Affordable Care Act permanent.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Reschovsky JD, Ghosh A, Stewart K, Chollet D
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Clinical Nurse Specialists, Compensation, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health
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Examines the interactions between public health and primary care and offers a set of core principles to guide their integration. Addresses the workforce primarily on pages 19, 50-1, 101-9, and 123-6. Discusses the Affordable Care Act, policy levers, case studies, and more.
Organization: Institute of Medicine
Author: Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, National, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Road Map for Curricular Development and Professional Success: The Life Cycle of a Primary Care Physician
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Offers a commentary on the life cycle of a family physician to help generate momentum for curricular change. Supports investigating the benefit of offering different continuing medical education programs for physicians in different decades of their careers.
Author: Silverberg LI
Location: Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 112(3), 113-5
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Continuing Education, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care
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Slack Resources and Quality of Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Examines the effect of organizational slack for staffing on several quality measures for primary care using Veterans Health Administration clinics. Supports the validity of VA staffing guidelines. Highlights the importance of monitoring staffing levels.
Author: Mohr DC, Young GJ
Location: Medical Care, 50(3), 203-9
Date: 3/2012
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, Health Care Quality, National, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Care Coordination Accountability Measures for Primary Care Practice
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Offers measures for evaluating or recognizing care coordination as it is carried out by primary care practices. Presents measures selected from the "Care Coordination Measures Atlas."
Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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Electronic Medical Records and Preserving Primary Care Physicians' Time
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Link: Extract
Provides a commentary on findings from a study that examine the effect electronic medical records have on health care providers' time. Offers suggestions for how to decrease the time primary care providers spend on EMRs and to increase the field's attractiveness.
Author: McDonald DJ, McDonald MH
Location: Archives of Internal Medicine, 172(3), 285-7
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Information Technology and Telehealth, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Guiding Transformation: How Medical Practices Can Become Patient-Centered Medical Homes
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Describes changes most medical practices would need to make to become patient-centered medical homes based on a literature review. Includes sections on building team relationships, care coordination, creating provider panels, and improving access to care.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Wagner EH, Coleman K, Reid RJ et al
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Health Reform and Primary Care Capacity: Evidence from Houston/Harris County, Texas
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Link: Abstract
Estimates supply and demand for primary care in Houston/Harris County, Texas and how it will be impacted by the Affordable Care Act with a focus on safety-net providers.
Author: Begley C, Le P, Lairson D, Hanks J, Omojasola A
Location: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 23(1), 386-97
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Texas
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Impact of a Workshop about Aging on the Empathy Scores of Pharmacy and Medical Students
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Examines changes in pharmacy and medical students’ empathy scores after a workshop where students observed and discussed a theatrical performance about the challenges of aging. Compares empathy scores by gender and specialty interest.
Author: Van Winkle LJ, Fjortoft N, Hojat M
Location: American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 76(1), 9
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Geriatrics, Illinois, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Impact of Primary Care on Healthcare Cost and Population Health: A Literature Review
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Reviews the literature on the impact of primary care on population health, costs, and disparities. Focuses on primary care supply, use, and architecture. Includes a number of reports related to Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Organization: Rhode Island Department of Health
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Notifications Received by Primary Care Practitioners in Electronic Health Records: A Taxonomy and Time Analysis
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Link: Abstract
Examines the time primary care providers spend on electronic health record related alerts each day. Categorizes the types of alerts received.
Author: Murphy DR, Reis B, Sittig DF, Singh H
Location: American Journal of Medicine, 125(2), 209.e1-7
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Physicians, Primary Care, Texas
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One Payer’s Attempt to Spur Primary Care Doctors to Form New Medical Homes
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Link: Abstract
Provides a Q&A with president of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield on a program encouraging primary care providers to form virtual medical homes. Addresses physician workforce trends, how the program incentivizes providers and works for small practices, how nurses help manage the medical care panels, and more.
Author: Dentzer S
Location: Health Affairs, 31(2), 341-9
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Compensation, District of Columbia, Maryland, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Use of Quality Indicators in Patient Care: A Senior Primary Care Physician Trying to Take Good Care of His Patients
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Link: Abstract
Describes the perspective of a primary care physician regarding quality measurement and management systems. Addresses physicians' concerns regarding organized quality improvement efforts and how to address barriers to engaging physicians in such efforts.
Author: Landon BE
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 307(9), 956-64
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Vermont Blueprint for Health: 2012 Annual Report
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Provides an update on Vermont's Blueprint for Health initiative, which supports patient centered medical home recognition (PCMH) of primary care practices and uses Community Health Teams (CHTs) to coordinate care. Includes sections describing CHTs, integration of behavioral health and primary care, payment reforms, and more.
Organization: Vermont Department of Health Access
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Care Quality, Health Reform, Policy, Primary Care, Vermont
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The Vermont Primary Care Workforce: 2011 Snapshot
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Reports on three regional surveys of Vermont's primary care workforce. Covers primary care physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, certified nurse midwives, and certified physician assistants. Highlights the efforts of the state's area health education centers.
Organization: University of Vermont College of Medicine AHEC Program
Date: 2/2012
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Tagged keywords: Area Health Education Centers, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Midwives, Nursing Occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand, Vermont
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California Hospital Association: Environmental Scan and View of the Future
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Discusses the current political environment and predictions for the future of health care in California. Addresses health care workforce aging and shortages, the economy, technological developments, access to care and more.
Organization: California Hospital Association
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: California, Health Care Access, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Health Reform, Hospitals, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The Characteristics of Clinically Active Older Physician Assistants
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Link: Abstract
Compares the characteristics of clinically active older physician assistants (PAs) to younger PAs. Identifies more older PAs in primary care and nonurban areas.
Author: Hooker RS, Ramos C, Daly RP, Fang R
Location: JAAPA, 25(1), 48, 50, 52-3
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: National, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Rural
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Fact Sheet on Georgia’s Medical Schools, January 2012
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Examines enrollment trends in Georgia's medical schools, tuition rates, the percent of graduates entering primary care, and instate retention. Offers policy recommendations.
Organization: Georgia Board for Physician Workforce
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Georgia, Physicians, Primary Care
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How Can We Expand the Primary Care Workforce?
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Offers a health policy snapshot on methods for addressing the primary care shortage and relevant provisions included in the Affordable Care Act.
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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How Do Medical Students View the Work Life of Primary Care and Specialty Physicians?
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Analyzes student perceptions of day-to-day physician work life and specialty choices based on a cross-sectional questionnaire.
Author: Phillips J, Weismantel D, Gold K, Schwenk T
Location: Family Medicine, 44(1), 7-13
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: Michigan, Physicians, Primary Care, Rhode Island, Specialty Choice
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HRSA's Wakefield on CHCs, ACOs and Strengthening the Health Workforce
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Provides a transcript of an interview with Dr. Mary Wakefield, administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), on the impact of the Affordable Care Act. Focuses on community health centers, the health workforce, teaching health centers, accountable care organizations, and more.
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Improving Care Coordination in the Specialty Referral Process Between Primary and Specialty Care
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Summarizes evidence of sub-optimal care coordination between specialists and primary care providers. Offers strategies for improving care coordination.
Author: Lin CY
Location: North Carolina Medical Journal, 73(1), 61-2
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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New Directions for Behavioral Health Funding and Implications for Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System
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Discusses past and current funding sources for youth mental health services in the juvenile justice system. Covers new models of care for providers in mental health settings including the shift to primary care, medical homes, and health homes on pages 6 and 7.
Organizations: National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Author: Cuellar A
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Primary Care
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New Mexico State Health Workforce Planning Report: New Mexico Workforce Assessment and Recommendation Partnership: Final Report
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Reviews health workforce development in New Mexico in the areas of workforce pipeline, recruitment and retention, education and training, and federal and state policies. Includes employment data in the First Interim Report (pages 35-37 of document). Covers best practices in workforce development in Second Interim Report (pages 135-171 of document). Funded by HRSA State Planning Grant.
Organization: New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Best Practices and Model Programs, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Education and Training, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, New Mexico, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Occupational Therapy Occupations, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand, Workforce Pipeline
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Primary Care 2025: A Scenario Exploration
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Additional Link: Toolkit and Slides
Describes several possible futures for primary care based on new models of care, new technologies, politics, the economy, and other trends. Addresses the impact on the health workforce. Provides recommendations for health professional education and more from a 2011 workshop of the same title.
Author: Institute for Alternative Futures
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Education and Training, National, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Primary Care Workforce Facts and Stats
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Additional Links: Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce, The Number of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Practicing Primary Care in the U.S., The Number of Practicing Primary Care Physicians in the U.S.
Provides a series of fact sheets to inform policy decisions related to the primary care workforce. Addresses the role of the primary care workforce, its capacity, and the need for more primary care providers due to population and policy changes.
Organizations: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Robert Graham Center
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Specialty Choice and Practice Location of Physician Alumni of University of California Premedical Postbaccalaureate Programs
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Link: Abstract
Examines the specialty choice and practice location of underrepresented minority and disadvantaged students who finished a University of California postbaccalaureate (UCPB) premedical program.
Author: Lupton K, Vercammen-Grandjean C, Forkin J, Wilson E, Grumbach K
Location: Academic Medicine, 87(1), 115-20
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: California, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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University of Maryland School of Medicine Increases Medical Student Education in Primary Care
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Describes a new primary care track at the University of Maryland that will offer medical students longitudinal experiences in rural and underserved areas. Addresses how the program will partner with Area Health Education Centers (AHECs).
Author: Colgan R, Lewis L, Southall N, Williams M, Baquet C
Location: Maryland Medicine, 12(4), 26-7, 30
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: Area Health Education Centers, Education and Training, Maryland, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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West Virginia Health Sciences and Rural Health Report Card 2011
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Examines medical school enrollment, student debt, and those choosing primary care and/or rural practices in West Virginia. Lists the number of physician, dentist, pharmacist, and nurse practitioner graduates who stay in state. Highlights the Rural Health Education Partnerships program.
Organization: West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission
Date: 1/2012
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Education and Training, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs, Rural, Student Debt Load, West Virginia
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2012 Annual Healthcare Indicators Report
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Provides information relating to hospital and health system trends in North Dakota. Includes data on health care personnel trends, comparisons to neighboring states, national data, and age of physicians, registered and practical nurses, and pharmacists.
Organization: North Dakota Hospital Association
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, National, North Dakota, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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2012 Health Occupations Outlook: Prepared for the Louisiana Health Works Commission
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Analyzes supply and demand for physicians, clinical laboratory personnel, and medical coders in Louisiana. Addresses the impact of health reform, vacancy rates for primary care physicians, Medicaid and Medicare participation, instate retention, recruitment methods, and prevalence of PCMH and ACO participation. Includes the survey instrument used.
Organization: Louisiana Hospital Association
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Louisiana, Medicare and Medicaid, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Alabama Medical Education Consortium Annual Report 2011
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Reports on the residency program choices of medical students graduating from schools in Alabama in 2011. Identifies whether they chose residency programs in state and whether they chose a primary care or urgent care specialty.
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Education and Training, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Alabama's Aging Primary Care Physician Workforce Series
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Provides charts showing the age distribution of primary care physicians in rural versus urban areas of Alabama for 2006 and 2012.
Organization: Alabama Rural Health Association
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Benefits of Implementing the Primary Care Patient- Centered Medical Home: A Review of Cost & Quality Results, 2012
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Discussing the benefits of implementing primary care patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), focusing mostly on improving costs and care quality. Highlights strengths of model programs in various states. Includes a discussion of the role of health care providers in the PCMH model.
Organization: Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
Author: Nielsen M, Langner B, Zema C,
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Alaska, Best Practices and Model Programs, California, Colorado, Family Medicine Physicians, Florida, Health Care Quality, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, National, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington
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Care Coordination Agreements: Barriers, Facilitators, and Lessons Learned
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Addresses the use of care coordination agreements (CCAs) by primary care physicians. Covers their formation, facilitators and barriers, replication, and implications for policies intending to improve care coordination. Offers selected CCA agreements upon request to the authors.
Organization: Center for Studying Health System Change
Author: Carrier E, Dowling MK, Pham HH
Location: American Journal of Managed Care, 18(11), e398-404
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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An Evaluation of the Collaborative Care Model of Integrated Health Care in Texas: An Executive Summary
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Reports the progress in implementing a collaborative care model between primary care and behavioral health treatment in Texas. Covers the importance of linguistic competent care and physician leadership.
Organization: Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Care Coordination, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Primary Care, Texas
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Graduating Resident Survey Trend Data
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Provides charts showing trends from an annual sample survey of residents graduating from pediatrics residency programs. Addresses gender, plans to practice in primary care, student loan debt, starting salaries, job search difficulty, and more.
Organization: American Academy of Pediatrics
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Student Debt Load, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Health Resources and Services Administration: FY 2012 Online Performance Appendix
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Reports on performance measures for the Health Resources and Services Administration. Addresses the National Health Service Corps, nursing education loan repayment and scholarship programs, health professions training programs, and the children's hospitals graduate medical education payment program on pages 29-53. Includes Affordable Care Act (ACA) measures on pages 47-50.
Organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Financial Aid, Health Reform, Home Health Aides and Home Care Aides, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Midwives, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs
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Health, United States, 2011
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Presents national trends in health statistics. Addresses the health workforce on pages 349-56. Includes trends in the supply of physicians and dentists by state, enrollment and diversity trend data for a variety of occupations, physician specialty trend data, and more.
Organization: National Center for Health Statistics
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Dentists, Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, National, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Optometrists, Osteopathic Physicians, Pharmacists, Physicians, Podiatrists, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Public Health, State-by-State, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Historical Match Data
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Provides statistics for internal medicine residency programs for 1985-2012 from the National Resident Matching Program. Compares trends in primary care specialties, including emergency medicine and surgery.
Organization: Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, National, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Residency Programs, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Is Distance to Provider a Barrier to Care for Medicaid Patients With Breast, Colorectal, or Lung Cancer?
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Link: Abstract
Examines the association between travel burden and timely diagnosis and treatment for Medicaid patients in Washington state with breast, colorectal, or lung cancer. Compares driving time and driving distance to primary care providers as indicators of travel burden.
Author: Scoggins JF, Fedorenko CR, Donahue SMA, Buchwald D, Blough DK, Ramsey SD
Location: Journal of Rural Health, 28(1), 54-62
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Washington
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Kansas Primary Care Health Professional Underserved Areas Report, 2012
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Identifies counties that are considered Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) for mental health, dental, and primary care services using maps and charts. Includes information on Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), the J-1 Visa program, and the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) program in the state.
Organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Kansas, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Shortage Designations, Supply and Demand
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Kansas State Health Workforce Planning Report: Health Care Workforce Development Planning Grant, 2010-2012
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Discusses benchmarks for achieving an increase of the primary care workforce in Kansas. Covers health care workforce data collection and goals for recruitment, retention and education. Offers links to supporting documents throughout. Funded by HRSA State Planning Grant.
Organization: KANSASWORKS State Board
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Kansas, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Research and Data Collection Methods
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Physician Salary, Compensation and Practice Surveys
Web site
Includes a variety of physician salary surveys including average physician salaries by specialty, physician compensation incentives, physician revenue generation,
practice preferences of medical residents, and more.
Author: Merritt-Hawkins & Associates
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Physician Wages in States with Expanded APRN Scope of Practice
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Examines primary care physician earnings for states with and without scope of practice reforms for advanced practice registered nurses (APRN).
Author: Pittman P, Williams B
Location: Nursing Research and Practice, 2012(671974)
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Family Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, National, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Primary Care Physician Analysis
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Provides regional analyses of the demand for primary care physicians in Oklahoma. Includes estimated number of physicians that can be supported by the community in each regional report. Offers reports from 2000 to present. To view reports: Select "Primary Care Physician Analysis" from "Search by type" drop-down; click "Search".
Organization: Oklahoma Rural Health Works
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Oklahoma, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Region VIII Job Opportunities Bank (JOB) Data Comparison Report
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Presents data on the number and type of jobs listed and filled for community health centers in the Community Health Association of Mountain/Plain States region VIII. Includes the average recruitment time and the use of various recruitment resources.
Organization: Community Health Association of Mountain/Plain States
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Colorado, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Family Medicine Physicians, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Administrators, Montana, North Dakota, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Recruitment and Retention, Social Workers, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming
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Rural Health Care: A Strategic Plan for Washington State
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Outlines rural health challenges in Washington State. Highlights workforce issues, specifically nursing shortages, on pages 16-18. Offers Rural Outreach Nursing Education (RONE), health information technology (HIT), and other innovative programs as solutions.
Organization: Washington State Hospital Association
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Rural, Supply and Demand, Washington
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Tenth Annual Report to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Congress: The Roles of Nurses in Primary Care
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Discusses the role of nurses in providing primary care. Covers their ability to improve quality and access to care. Addresses scope of practice barriers, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement policies, nurse-led models of care and nursing education and training focused on primary care.
Organization: National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice
Date: 2012
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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2011 Physician Survey: Attitudes on Health Reform and the Future of Medical Practice
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Reports on a nationally representative survey of physicians regarding their attitudes toward health reform and how it may impact future medical practice. Addresses demand for services, income, non-physician primary care providers, models of care, tort reform, and more.
Organization: Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Reform, Malpractice Insurance, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Alabama: Status of Primary Healthcare in Selected Counties
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Presents information on primary and sub-specialty care providers in Alabama's rural counties along with information on facilities, populations served, and the age of the county's primary care workforce.
Organization: Alabama Medical Education Consortium
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Commentary: Meeting Future Medical Care Needs: A Perfect Storm on the Horizon
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Offers a perspective on the primary care shortage and the need to increase the number of first-year residency positions through partnerships between medical professionals and state and federal officials.
Author: Whitcomb ME
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(12), 1490-1
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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Comprehensive Medical School Rural Programs Produce Rural Family Physicians
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Examines the current location and specialty of graduates from three rural programs from their inception to 2005. Identifies the percent currently practicing in rural areas and in primary care.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Rabinowitz HK, Petterson S, Boulger JG, Hunsaker ML, Markham FW, Diamond JJ, Bazemore A, Phillips RL Jr
Location: American Family Physician, 84(12), 1350
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Educating Generalists: Factors of Resident Continuity Clinic Associated with Perceived Impact on Choosing a Generalist Career
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Link: Abstract
Examines the relationship between resident satisfaction with a continuity clinic experience and interest in pursuing a general internal medicine career.
Author: Laponis R, O'Sullivan PS, Hollander H, Cornett P, Julian K
Location: Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 3(4), 469-74
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: California, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Specialty Choice
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A Half Million Newly Insured: Is Colorado Ready? An Analysis of Primary Care Workforce Needs after Health Care Reform
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Additional Link: Data by County
Discusses the shortage of primary care providers in Colorado and estimates the number of additional providers that will be needed to care for Colorado's newly insured. Includes current primary care workforce estimates and other data for Colorado's Health Statistics Regions.
Organization: Colorado Health Institute
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Colorado, Health Reform, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Hawaii State Health Workforce Planning Report: Hawaii’s Healthcare Workforce 20/20 Plan & Report
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Presents county and state-level strategies for addressing health workforce issues in Hawaii. Covers supply, education, recruitment and retention. Offers plans for the most difficult occupations to fill by county. Includes information on current health workforce programs and data in appendices. Funded by HRSA State Planning Grant.
Organizations: Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Health Resources and Services Administration, State of Hawaii Workforce Development Council
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, Dietitians and Nutritionists, Education and Training, Hawaii, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Educators, Health Information and Informatics Occupations, Health Technologists and Technicians, Medical Assistants, Nursing Aides, Nursing Occupations, Occupational Therapy Occupations, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Radiologic Technologists, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors, Supply and Demand, Workforce Pipeline
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Improving Patient and Health System Outcomes through Advanced Pharmacy Practice: A Report to the U.S. Surgeon General 2011
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Discusses how pharmacists can help meet demand for primary care care providers and improve access to care. Covers physician-pharmacist collaboration models, policy barriers, payment models, and the literature supporting pharmacist-delivered patient care.
Organization: U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
Author: Giberson S, Yoder S, Lee MP
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Care Access, National, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Policy, Primary Care
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Matching Supply to Demand: Addressing the U.S. Primary Care Workforce Shortage
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Discusses the shortage of primary care providers and the impact of the Affordable Care Act. Identifies policy options for addressing the primary care shortage, such as expanding the scope of practice for advanced practice nurses and paying for team-based care.
Organization: National Institute for Health Care Reform
Author: Carrier ER, Yee T, Stark L
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Reform, National, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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Minnesota State Health Workforce Planning Report: Minnesota’s Primary Care Provider Shortage: Strategies to Grow the Primary Care Workforce
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Discusses results from a primary care workforce planning study in Minnesota. Reports number and age of providers, higher education enrollment and completion statistics and more. Summarizes strategies for resolving shortages including roles for physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. Funded by HRSA State Planning Grant.
Organization: Minnesota Governor's Workforce Development Council
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, Minnesota, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The Physician Assistant Workforce in Indiana: Preparing to Meet Future Health Care Needs
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Link: Abstract
Describes the physician assistant workforce in Indiana from 1978-2010. Addresses location of education, the percent in primary care, the number working in shortage and underserved areas, and demographics.
Author: Snyder J, Zorn J, Gjerde T, Burkhart J, Rosebrock L
Location: JAAPA, 24(12), 50, 53-7
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Indiana, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care & Oral Health Workforce Study
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Reports on a comprehensive primary care and oral health needs assessment and workforce study for Jefferson County, Kentucky. Includes detailed workforce data for the area.
Author: Louisville Primary Care Association
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Dental Occupations, Dentists, Kentucky, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Relationship Between Physician Compensation Strategies and the Intensity of Care Delivered to Medicare Beneficiaries
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Link: Abstract
Examines how different payment methods affect care provided by primary care physicians to Medicare beneficiaries.
Author: Landon BE, Reschovsky JD, O'Malley AJ, Pham HH, Hadley J
Location: Health Services Research, 46(6pt1), 1863-82
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Supply Side Implications of Insurance Coverage Expansions
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Provides highlights from a meeting held December 2011 in Washington DC regarding the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the capacity to care for the newly insured. Addresses primary care capacity and trends. Identifies policy recommendations and priority research areas.
Organization: AcademyHealth
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Wisconsin State Health Workforce Planning Report: Wisconsin State Health Care Workforce Development (SHCWD) Planning Grant: Project Report
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Presents benchmarks for addressing health care workforce challenges in Wisconsin. Provides data on supply, distribution, compensation, vacancies and demographics. Discusses current and future programs for achieving each benchmark. Offers additional workforce data in appendices. Funded by HRSA State Planning Grant.
Organizations: Wisconsin AHEC Program, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Date: 12/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, Dental Assistants, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dietitians and Nutritionists, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Technologists and Technicians, Home Health Aides and Home Care Aides, Laboratory Professionals, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Medical Assistants, Nursing Aides, Nursing Occupations, Occupational Therapy Occupations, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Pharmacy Technicians and Aides, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Radiologic Technologists, Registered Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Supply and Demand, Surgical Technologists, Wisconsin, Workforce Pipeline
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2011 State Physician Workforce Data Book
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Examines the active physician and primary care physician supply in each state, current medical school enrollment, physicians in graduate medical education programs, and in-state retention rates. Includes data charts and tables for all 50 states with age, gender, and international medical school graduate data, in addition to national averages.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Education and Training, International Medical Graduates, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, State-by-State, Supply and Demand
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Minutes of Meeting - November 7-8, 2011
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Summarizes speeches on core competencies for interprofessional education, interdisciplinary versus interprofessional practice, and dental training and the patient-centered medical home.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Education and Training, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Primary Care
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Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) Minutes of Meeting – November 8 & 10, 2011
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Summarizes discussions on graduate medical education (GME) and primary care, the federal deficit, accreditation changes, critical access hospitals, osteopathic GME and more.
Organization: Council on Graduate Medical Education
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Educating Trainees About Common Mental Health Problems in Primary Care: A (Not So) Modest Proposal
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Highlights the need to teach medical students and residents how to manage common mental health diagnoses.
Author: Smith RC
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(11), e16
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Health Care Reform in New York City—Access to Primary Care Before Reform
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Addresses access to primary health care in New York City and discusses the impact of health reform. Includes a chart showing the full-time equivalent primary care physicians by hospital-fund neighborhood on page 6.
Author: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, New York, Physicians, Primary Care
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Improving Access to Healthcare in Hawaii County
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Discusses the lack of access to health care and provider shortages in Hawaii County, Hawaii. Includes data on physician supply, distribution, age and demand, and population health statistics.
Organization: Hawaii Island Healthcare Alliance
Author: North Hawaii Outcomes Project
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Hawaii, Health Care Access, Physicians, Primary Care, Shortage Designations, Supply and Demand
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Influencing Residency Choice and Practice Location Through a Longitudinal Rural Pipeline Program
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Link: Abstract
Reports on the specialty choice and initial practice locations of participants in rural pipeline programs at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Concludes that the longitudinal Rural Track Pipeline Program successfully recruits students for rural and primary care practice.
Author: Quinn KJ, Kane KY, Stevermer JJ, Webb WD, Porter JL, Williamson HA Jr, Hosokawa MC
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(11), 1397-1406
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, Missouri, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Specialty Choice
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Maryland State Health Workforce Planning Report: Preparing Maryland's Workforce for Reform: Healthcare 2020 Report
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Provides a strategic action plan to expand Maryland's health workforce in preparation for increased insurance coverage from the Affordable Care Act. Addresses workforce planning, primary care capacity, workforce distribution, and compensation strategies that support high-quality care. Funded by HRSA State Planning Grant.
Organization: Maryland Governor's Workforce Investment Board
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Reform, Maryland, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Medicaid Redesign Team: Workforce Flexibility and Change of Scope of Practice Work Group Final Recommendations
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Offers recommendations regarding health workforce scope of practice in New York. Supports creating an advisory committee, demonstrations, a service-obligated scholarship program, and other policy changes. Includes a behavioral health workforce survey regarding licensing on pages 42-64.
Organization: New York Department of Health
Author: MRT Workforce Flexibility and Change of Scope of Practice Work Group
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Dental Hygienists, Financial Aid, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Licensure and Certification, Medicare and Medicaid, New York, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Registered Nurses, Scope of Practice
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Montana State Health Workforce Planning Report: Montana Healthcare Workforce Statewide Strategic Plan
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Introduces a healthcare workforce plan to address the unique needs of the state of Montana. Presents strategies in four main areas: engaging Montanans in understanding and addressing the State's healthcare workforce needs, educating and training the state's healthcare workforce, recruiting health professionals to health professions shortage areas, and retaining a skilled healthcare workforce. Includes vacancy rates and projected employment. Funded by HRSA State Planning Grant.
Organizations: Montana AHEC, Montana Governor's Workforce Investment Board, Montana Office of Rural Health
Author: Montana Healthcare Workforce Advisory Committee
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Allied Health, Audiologists, Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Chiropractors, Compensation, Dental Assistants, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Dietitians and Nutritionists, Education and Training, Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics, Family Medicine Physicians, Federally Qualified Health Centers, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Health Administrators, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Information and Informatics Occupations, Health Technologists and Technicians, Home Health Aides and Home Care Aides, Laboratory Professionals, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Medical Assistants, Mental Health Counselors, Midwives, Montana, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Aides, Nursing Occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Occupational Health and Safety Occupations, Occupational Therapy Occupations, Optometrists, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Pharmacy Technicians and Aides, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Podiatrists, Policy, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatric Aides, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Public Health, Radiologic Technologists, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Rural, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors, Surgical Technologists, Vision Care Occupations
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Perspective: Creating the Next Generation of General Internists: A Call for Medical Education Reform
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Examines the impact of educational interventions in undergraduate medical education (UME) and graduate medical education (GME) on primary care internal medicine career choice. Provides suggestions for future educational changes.
Author: Julian K, Riegels NS, Baron RB
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(11), 1443-7
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Education and Training, General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Specialty Choice
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Primary Care, Everywhere: Connecting the Dots across the Emerging Health Landscape
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Provides an overview of the innovations in primary care including team practice, the medical home, retail and worksite clinics, and telehealth. Addresses the mismatch between primary care supply and demand. Discusses barriers to innovations.
Organization: California Healthcare Foundation
Author: Sarasohn-Kahn J
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Clinics, Health Care Access, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, National, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Retainer Medicine: An Ethically Legitimate Form of Practice That Can Improve Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Offers a perspective on retainer medicine, professionalism, and the primary care physician shortage.
Author: Huddle TS, Centor RM
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(9), 633-5
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Retainer Medicine: Why Not for All?
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Link: Excerpt
Offers a perspective on retainer medicine and physicians' responsibility to address problems of access to care and health disparities.
Author: Lo B
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(9), 641-2
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Target 2020: The Future of Georgia's Primary Care Medical Workforce 2011-2020
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Offers recommendations related to Georgia's primary care workforce from the October 2011 Statewide AHEC Network Primary Care Summit. Addresses graduate medical education, medical education, pipeline programs, and incentives like loan repayment programs to encourage more physicians to practice primary care in the state.
Organization: Georgia Statewide AHEC Network
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Area Health Education Centers, Education and Training, Georgia, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Workforce Pipeline
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Training New Community Health, Food Service, and Environmental Protection Workers Could Boost Health, Jobs, and Growth
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Link: Abstract
Supports creating new entry-level health care jobs focused on the prevention and management of chronic conditions funded by federal pilot projects. Addresses job development for community health workers, environmental remediation and protection workers, and food service workers.
Author: Freudenberg N, Tsui E
Location: Health Affairs, 30(11), 2098-106
Date: 11/2011
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Tagged keywords: Community Health Workers, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, National, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health
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13th International Medical Workforce Collaborative 2011
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Provides papers, presentations, and posters from an international conference on the health workforce held in Brisbane, Australia on October 24-26, 2011. Addresses interdisciplinary education and training, challenges of expanding physician supply, health workforce policy and planning, restructuring primary care, and integrating international health professionals.
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Immigration, International, Interprofessional Training and Education, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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2010 Primary Care Needs Assessment: Maryland
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Identifies areas for priority attention by Maryland's Primary Care Office to promote access to care. Addresses the PCO functions. Includes the number and location of National Health Service Corps providers, J-1 physicians, and loan assistance repayment program physicians.
Organizations: Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Family Health Administration, Maryland Primary Care Office
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Maryland, Primary Care
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Addressing the Primary Care Crisis
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Provides a Q&A with Dr. John Geyman, author of "Breaking Point - How the Primary Care Crisis Endangers the Lives of Americans." Focuses on the shortage and maldistribution of primary care providers, attempts to address these issues through policy changes and education, and barriers to implementing changes.
Organization: Health Workforce Information Center
Location: Health Workforce News
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Specialty Choice, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Assuring Access to Care under Health Reform: The Key Role of Workforce Policy
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Discusses how to prepare for expected demand under the Affordable Care Act and workforce policies that could help.
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Author: Ormond BA, Bovbjerg RR
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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CHCS Webinar: Coordination with Primary Care
Video or multimedia
Offers a webinar recording focusing on the experiences of two care management entities in their efforts to engage primary care providers, coordinate physical and behavioral health care, and ensure that children have a medical home.
Organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Massachusetts, Primary Care, Wisconsin
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Community Health Workers and Integrated Primary Health Care Teams in the 21st Century
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Link: Abstract
Explores the roles of community health workers in connecting public and primary care to the communities that they serve.
Author: Herman AA
Location: The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 34(4), 354-361
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Community Health Workers, National, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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Compassion Fatigue and Burnout: What Managers Should Know
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Link: Abstract
Discusses compassion fatigue for primary health care workers. Identifies interventions managers can implement to mitigate problems associated with compassion fatigue.
Author: Slatten LA, David Carson K, Carson PP
Location: The Health Care Manager, 30(4), 325-333
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Administrators, National, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Electronic Consultations Between Primary and Specialty Care Clinicians: Early Insights
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Discusses electronic consultation and how it can improve coordination of care between specialty and primary care physicians. Addresses payment models and reimbursement strategies.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Horner K, Wagner E, Tufano J
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Evaluating Communication between Pediatric Primary Care Physicians and Hospitalists
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Link: Abstract
Examines communication between pediatric primary care physicians and hospitalists. Identifies communication preferences and qualities of communication that can support successful transitions from the hospital to primary care.
Author: Ruth JL, Geskey JM, Shaffer ML, Bramley HP, Paul IM
Location: Clinical Pediatrics, 50(10), 923-8
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, General Pediatricians, Health Care Quality, Hospitals, National, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care
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Fewer New Physicians Choose Community-Based Primary Care
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Examines practice trends for newly-trained primary care physicians who completed training in New York. Identifies an increase in demand, a decrease in those staying in New York, and a decrease in general internal medicine physicians planning to work in community-based settings.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Author: Armstrong DP, Forte GJ, Moore J
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: General Internal Medicine Physicians, New York, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Identifying Public Health Competencies Relevant to Family Medicine
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Link: Abstract
Identifies a set of public health competencies relevant to primary care using a multi-stage process which included a literature review.
Author: Harvey BJ, Moloughney BW, Iglar KT
Location: American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 41(4), S251-5
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Public Health, Residency Programs
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IHWC Papers: Comparisons of the Restructured Primary Care in the IMWC Countries - United States of America
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Addresses the size of the primary care workforce and contributing factors, urban/rural distribution, the impact of the Affordable Care Act, and emerging models of primary care. From a series of papers presented at the 13th International Health Workforce Collaborative 2011 in Australia.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Phillips RL Jr, Petterson S, Teevan B
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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The Physician Workforce in South Carolina
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Reports on a survey of physicians in South Carolina. Addresses medical school trends, state retention, specialty distribution, primary care supply, work hours, demographics, and future issues.
Organization: South Carolina Office for Healthcare Workforce Analysis and Planning
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, South Carolina, Supply and Demand
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Primary Health Care Teams’ Experience of Electronic Medical Record Use After Adoption
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Examines team behavior in relation to electronic medical record (EMR) use. Identifies elements of team behavior that promoted EMR adoption.
Author: Denomme LB, Terry AL, Brown JB, Thind A, Stewart M
Location: Family Medicine, 43(9), 63-42
Date: 10/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, International, Primary Care
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Action Agenda 2012-2015
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Discusses a five year health workforce plan. Focuses on six occupations and six systemic change initiatives determined by the Coalition to be in highest need of attention.
Organizations: Alaska Health Workforce Coalition, UAA Office of Health Programs Development
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Alaska, Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Education and Training, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physical Therapy Occupations, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Workforce Pipeline
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Advanced Practice Nurse Outcomes 1990-2008: A Systematic Review
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Provides a literature review of 18 years of U.S. studies on care provided by advanced practice registered nurses. Concludes care by advanced practice nurses to be of comparable quality, safety, and effectiveness to that of physicians.
Author: Stanik-Hutt J, White KM, Newhouse RP, Johantgen M, Bass EB, etc.
Location: Nursing Economic$, 29(5)
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, Midwives, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Aligning GME Policy with the Nation's Health Care Workforce Needs
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Offers a position paper on graduate medical education and the shortage of primary care physicians. Provides an overview of GME financing and proposals to alter it. Highlights training innovations such as teaching health centers. Identifies policy recommendations.
Organization: American College of Physicians
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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Coordination of Health Behavior Counseling in Primary Care
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Examines how primary care practices implement coordinated care to address patient's health behavior change needs. Identifies factors that facilitate coordination, such as an expanded medical assistant role, electronic health record prompts, and referral with outreach.
Author: Cohen DJ, Balasubramanian BA, Isaacson NF, Clark EC, Etz RS, Crabtree BF
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 9(5), 406-15
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Medical Assistants, National, Primary Care
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Desired Educational Outcomes of Disability-Related Training for the Generalist Physician: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills
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Link: Abstract
Identifies recommended educational outcomes of disability-related training in terms of knowledge, attitudes, and skills. Discusses the importance of role models, the interactions between the outcome domains, and issues in evaluation.
Author: Minihan PM, Robey KL, Long-Bellil LM, Graham CL, Hahn JE, Woodard L, Eddey GE; on behalf of the Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(9), 1171-8
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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DMF Healthcare Workforce Survey Results
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Reports results from a Dakota Medical Foundation (DMF) survey of health care facility vacancies in the DMF area. Includes data on 2010 vacancies, reason for vacancies, number of staff over 50, loan repayment availability, number of employees, top workforce needs, and workforce development opportunities.
Organization: Dakota Medical Foundation
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Minnesota, North Dakota, Primary Care, Radiologic Technologists, Supply and Demand
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The Effect of Financial Incentives on the Quality of Health Care Provided by Primary Care Physicians
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Link: Abstract
Reviews the literature on the effect of financial incentives on the quality of care provided by primary care physicians (PCPs). Identifies the types of incentives that improved quality, the characteristics of patient populations whose quality of care was improved, and the characteristics of PCPs who responded to financial incentives.
Author: Scott A, Sivey P, Ait Ouakrim D, Willenberg L, Naccarella L, Furler J, Young D
Location: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 7, 9
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Quality, International, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Geographic Distribution of General Surgeons: Comparisons across Time and Specialties
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Examines geographic access to surgical services using the Gini index. Addresses general surgeons, orthopaedic surgery, ophthalmology, neurosurgery, and primary care physicians.
Organization: American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute
Author: Neuwahl S, Ricketts TC, Thompson K
Location: Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, 96(9), 38-41
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: General Surgeons, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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High Performance Rural Health Care System of the Future
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Describes a future rural system that would be built on foundations of affordability, accessibility, community focus, high quality, and patient centeredness. Discusses rural health care teams, consisting of well-trained professionals practicing at the optimum of their license and experience.
Organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Author: Mueller K, Coburn A, Lundblad J, MacKinney A, McBride T, Watson S
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, National, Policy, Primary Care, Rural
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Higher Fees Paid to US Physicians Drive Higher Spending for Physician Services Compared to Other Countries
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Link: Abstract
Compares the impact of primary care and orthopedic physician fees, incomes, medical education costs, and supply on relative health care costs for several countries including the United States.
Author: Laugesen MJ, Glied SA
Location: Health Affairs, 30(9), 1647-56
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Influence of a Rural Family Medicine Rotation on Residency Selection: MS3 versus MS4
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Examines the effect of a rural family medicine rotation on students' residency choices and the differences between a third-year and fourth-year rotation. Identifies a positive effect on student interest in family medicine.
Author: Geske JA, Hartman T, Goodman G, Paulman P
Location: Family Medicine, 43(8), 556-9
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, Nebraska, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Specialty Choice
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Innovative Medicaid Initiatives to Improve Service Delivery and Quality of Care: A Look at Five State Initiatives
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Highlights care coordination efforts in Alabama, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Addresses their implementation of the patient-centered medical home, payment methods, strategies to strengthen primary care capacity and skills, and health information technology.
Organizations: Kaiser Family Foundation, Urban Institute
Author: Devers K, Berenson R, Coughlin T, Macri J
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Care Quality, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Medicare and Medicaid, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Primary Care, Washington
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New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education: 8th Report & Policy Recommendations
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Provides policy recommendations on issues affecting graduate medical education in New York State. Addresses obstetrical training, diversity, clinical clerkship education, training in ambulatory care settings, health reform, and more.
Organization: New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Health Reform, New York, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Physician & Physician Assistant Workforce Capacity Report: A Summary of Findings from the Physician and Physician Assistant 2010 Workforce Survey in the District of Columbia
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Reports on a survey of physicians and physician assistants renewing their license in DC during 2010. Addresses demographics, training, location, specialty, retirement, social media use, and more.
Organization: District of Columbia Board of Medicine
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: District of Columbia, Diversity, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Providing the Primary Care Health Workforce for Georgia’s Rural and Medically Underserved Communities
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Reviews the literature on factors encouraging physicians to choose primary care and locate their practices in rural areas. Focuses on the commitments needed by stakeholders in Georgia to implement proven strategies.
Organization: Georgia Statewide AHEC Network
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Georgia, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural
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The Rural Implications of Key Primary Care Provisions in the Affordable Care Act
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Provides recommendations regarding provisions in the Affordable Care Act related to the training and placement of primary care providers. Addresses the expansion of the National Health Service Corps, re-allocation of unused graduate medical education (GME) positions, the teaching health center program, and the nursing GME demonstration program.
Organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Rural
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Ten-Year Trends in the Financing of Family Medicine Residency Programs: Considerations for Planning and Policy
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Examines the per-resident cost of family medicine residency education based on a ten-year study. Discusses the programs' financial sustainability and implications for federal and state funding of graduate medical education in primary care.
Author: Lesko S, Fitch W, Pauwels J
Location: Family Medicine, 43(8), 543-50
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Trends and Emerging Issues, Washington
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The Veterans Health Administration: Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Homes in the Nation’s Largest Integrated Delivery System
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Examines the Veterans Health Administration's patient-centered medical home model. Identifies steps for establishing a successful medical home. Addresses team composition, staffing ratios, care coordination, training, and more. Includes case examples.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Klein S
Date: 9/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Education and Training, National, Nebraska, Primary Care, Tennessee, Trends and Emerging Issues
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2010 Physician Survey: Statistical Report
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Additional Link: Summary Report
Reports on a survey of Vermont's physicians. Includes demographics, training, distribution by county and specialty, and practice characteristics, with comparisons to data from previous surveys. Identifies the percent of Vermont's physicians accepting new Medicaid patients and average patient care hours by physician age. Provides the survey instrument used.
Organization: Vermont Department of Health
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand, Vermont
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Association of Hospitalist Care with Medical Utilization after Discharge: Evidence of Cost Shift from a Cohort Study
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Link: Abstract
Compares hospitalists to primary care physicians by examining medical use and costs for hospitalized patients during hospital care and after discharge. Identifies fewer readmissions, fewer emergency department visits, and lower total costs for patients cared for by primary care physicians.
Author: Kuo YF, Goodwin JS
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(3), 152-9
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, Hospitals, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Best Practices in Education for Healthcare Professionals of the Future
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Discusses best practices for educating the health care workforce in Minnesota. Covers geriatric training, on-line education, simulation, and more. Addresses the physician shortage.
Organization: HealthForce Minnesota
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, Geriatrics, Minnesota, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Technology in Education and Training
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Changes in Barriers to Primary Care and Emergency Department Utilization
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Examines the association between barriers to timely primary care and emergency department use. Concludes that expanded health insurance coverage during a primary care shortage may further limit access to primary care services.
Author: Cheung PT, Wiler JL, Ginde AA
Location: Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(15), 1397-9
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Closing the Gaps in the Rural Primary Care Workforce
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Offers a brief on primary care challenges for rural America and policy options for addressing those challenges.
Organization: National Conference of State Legislatures
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: National, Policy, Primary Care, Rural
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The Community Health Center Workforce in New York
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Reports on a survey of community health centers in New York about staffing levels and recruitment and retention difficulties. Covers the primary care, nursing, behavioral health, and oral health workforce. Includes rural/urban comparisons.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Community Health Workers, Dental Assistants, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Dietitians and Nutritionists, Family Medicine Physicians, Federally Qualified Health Centers, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Educators, Medical Assistants, Midwives, New York, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Aides, Nursing Occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Patient Navigators, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Rural, Social Workers, Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors, Supply and Demand
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Development and Evaluation of a Web-Based Breast Cancer Cultural Competency Course for Primary Healthcare Providers
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Link: Abstract
Describes an interactive web-based continuing medical education (CME) course. Highlights improved healthcare provider knowledge of breast cancer health disparities and the importance of cross-cultural communication in provider-patient interactions about breast cancer screening.
Author: Palmer RC, Samson R, Triantis M, Mullan ID
Location: BMC Medical Education, 11, 59
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Continuing Education, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, National, Primary Care
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Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Physician Assistants in Physician Offices
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Describes the employment of nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants among office-based physicians by selected physician and practice characteristics. Highlights the importance of knowing current employment to help prepare for expanded insurance coverage and an aging population.
Organization: National Center for Health Statistics
Author: Park M, Cherry D, Decker SL
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, Midwives, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care
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Physicians, the Affordable Care Act, and Primary Care: Disruptive Change or Business as Usual?
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Link: Abstract
Discusses the primary care shortage, roles of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, scope of practice issues, and opportunities for new primary care roles.
Author: Jacobson PD, Jazowski SA
Location: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 26(8),934-7
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care Physicians: The Status in Rural Missouri
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Presents an overview of primary care physicians in rural Missouri. Discusses physician characteristics, factors contributing to shortages, economic impact on rural communities, and a snapshot of licensed primary care physicians.
Organization: Missouri Hospital Association
Author: Becker M, Porth L
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Missouri, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Taking the Mystery out of 'Mystery Shopper' Studies
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Offers a perspective on how well-designed audit studies could help address factors that contribute to primary care shortages. Discusses a proposed mystery shopper study on primary care access and addresses related controversies.
Author: Rhodes K
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 365(6), 484-6
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods
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Workforce Issues Related to Physical and Behavioral Healthcare Integration Specifically Substance Use Disorders and Primary Care: A Framework
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Offers a discussion framework for the joint ONDCP/SAMHSA/HRSA meeting August 10th, 2011. Addresses practice strategies and training and education focused on integrating substance abuse treatment into primary care. Includes workforce and education statistics.
Author: Dilonardo J
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Care Coordination, Education and Training, National, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors
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Workforce Issues: Integrating Substance Use Services into Primary Care
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Summarizes the key themes from the "Workforce Issues: Integrating Substance Abuse Services into Primary Care Summit" on August 10-11, 2011. Addresses Medicaid financing, model programs, workforce issues related to integration, the use of teams, and workforce development programs.
Organizations: Health Resources and Services Administration, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Date: 8/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Education and Training, National, Policy, Primary Care
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AAFP Annual Report on the National Resident Matching Program: 2011
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Includes the number of applicants to graduate medical programs for the 2011-12 academic year, primary care positions filled, and trends in specialty selection. Discusses the outlook for family medicine.
Organization: American Academy of Family Physicians
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Community Health Workers '101' for Primary Care Providers and Other Stakeholders in Health Care Systems
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Link: Abstract
Provides basic guidance to integrate community health workers (CHWs) into multidisciplinary health care teams to help prevent and manage diseases, especially among medically underserved and disparate populations. Addresses patient- and system-related barriers currently experienced in ambulatory care practices.
Author: Brownstein JN, Hirsch GR, Rosenthal EL, Rush CH
Location: The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 34(3), 210-220
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Community Health Workers, Health Care Quality, National, Primary Care
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Georgia Physician Workforce: Primary Care/Core Specialties
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Examines the supply and distribution of Georgia's physician workforce. Identifies trends in demographics, specialty, and geographic location.
Organization: Georgia Board for Physician Workforce
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Georgia, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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A History of Medical Student Debt: Observations and Implications for the Future of Medical Education
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Link: Abstract
Examines the problem of U.S. medical student debt in a historical context. Addresses the impact on workforce diversity and primary care.
Author: Greysen SR, Chen C, Mullan F
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(7), 840-845
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Student Debt Load, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Lessons from the Trenches — A High-Functioning Primary Care Clinic
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Describes how a community health center in Colorado redesigned its care model to become a patient-centered medical home using care continuity, prompt access to care, and health care teams. Addresses the transition to team-based care and roles of team members.
Author: Bodenheimer T
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 365(1), 5-8
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Clinics, Colorado, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Medical Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Modernizing Rural Health Care: Coverage, Quality and Innovation
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Provides an in-depth overview of the challenges facing rural health care and possible solutions. Addresses the role of primary care, the impact of health reform, teamwork, telemedicine, health information technology, and more. Appendix 4 includes state by state rural primary care capacity estimates.
Author: UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Health Reform, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Nurse Practitioners as Primary Care Providers Within the VA
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Link: Abstract
Examines the perceptions of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians regarding NPs' roles as primary care providers within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Author: Fletcher CE, Copeland LA, Lowery JC, Reeves PJ
Location: Military Medicine, 176(7), 791-797
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, Primary Care
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Patient-Reported Care Coordination: Associations with Primary Care Continuity and Specialty Care Use
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Identifies the need for better strategies to coordinate care between specialists and primary care providers for patients with a high number of specialty visits. Reports on a study of elderly patients with chronic conditions in Washington.
Author: Liss DT, Chubak J, Anderson ML, Saunders KW, Tuzzio L, Reid RJ
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 9(4), 323-9
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Physicians, Primary Care, Washington
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Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P⁴): Site-Specific Innovations, Hypotheses, and Measures at Baseline
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Describes the innovations, hypotheses tested, and measures used in 14 family medicine residencies in the Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4) Project. Innovations address the patient-centered medical home, team-based care, and individualized curricula.
Author: Carney PA, Eiff MP, Green LA, Lindbloom E, Jones SE, Osborn J, Saultz JW
Location: Family Medicine, 43(7), 464-71
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: California, Care Coordination, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Family Medicine Physicians, Interprofessional Training and Education, Iowa, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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Psychiatric Pharmacist and Primary Care Collaboration at a Skid-Row Safety-Net Clinic
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Link: Abstract
Addresses how psychiatric pharmacist and primary care provider collaboration can improve access to mental health services. Describes the establishment of the medication management service, the types of interventions provided, and patient and provider satisfaction.
Author: Chung B, Dopheide JA, Gregerson P
Location: Journal of the National Medical Association, 103(7), 567-74
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, California, Care Coordination, Clinics, Health Care Access, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care
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Qualitative Evaluation of Provider and Practice Staff & Blueprint-Related Team Members and Patient Perceptions Related to Adoption of the Blueprint for Health in Two Vermont Communities
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Reports on interviews with health care providers, staff, team members, and patients related to Vermont's patient-centered medical home based initiative, Blueprint for Health. Addresses facilitators and barriers to Blueprint adoption, changes in workflow, roles of the community health team, challenges, and recommendations.
Organization: Vermont Department of Health Access
Author: Krulewitz J, Tolmie EC, Shaw J
Date: 7/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Dietitians and Nutritionists, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Care Quality, Health Educators, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Vermont
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Minutes of Webinar Meeting, June 13-14, 2011
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Summarizes work on the committee's ninth annual report. Highlights their new responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act. Identifies the topic of the tenth annual report.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Policy, Primary Care
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Coordinating Care in the Medical Neighborhood: Critical Components and Available Mechanisms
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Discusses barriers to and strategies for creating a medical neighborhood. Addresses its relationship to the patient-centered medical home, the roles of various types of health care providers, care coordination agreements, workflow, care transitions, payment reforms including accountable care organizations, and more.
Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, National, Pharmacists, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Dermatology Elective Curriculum: Birdwatching List and Travel Guide
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Describes a dermatology curriculum to help primary care physicians diagnose common dermatologic conditions, like skin cancer.
Author: Patadia DD, Mostow EN
Location: Dermatology Online Journal, 17(6), 1
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Ohio, Physicians, Primary Care
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Gaps in the Supply of Physicians, Advance Practice Nurses, and Physician Assistants
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Link: Abstract
Offers supply and demand projections through 2025 for the combined capacity of the physician, physician assistant, and advanced practice nurse workforce. Includes separate projections for primary care. Addresses the impact of health reform.
Author: Sargen M, Hooker RS, Cooper RA
Location: Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 212(6),991-9
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Health Reform, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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The Health Care Workforce in New York, 2009: Trends in the Supply of and Demand for Health Workers
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Addresses health care workforce trends in New York by employment setting and region. Includes the number of workers, recruitment and retention difficulties, and demand projections. Identifies the impact of the recession on the state's health care system.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Author: Martiniano R, MacPherson M, Dionne M, and Moore J
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Home Health Agencies, Hospitals, New York, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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The Influence of Longitudinal Mentoring on Medical Student Selection of Primary Care Residencies
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Evaluates the effectiveness of a longitudinal mentoring program in supporting student interest in primary care. Reviews studies on the declining interest in primary care and mentoring.
Author: Indyk D, Deen D, Fornari A, Santos MT, Lu W, Rucker L
Location: BMC Medical Education, 11, 27
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: New York, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Integrated Primary Care and Behavioral Health: A Case Study Report
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Provides an overview of primary care and behavioral health integration based on a literature review. Reports on a pilot program in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Addresses health workforce team issues, facilitators, and barriers to integration.
Organization: Altarum Institute
Author: Lindly O, Skaff L, Ahmadi H, Fantacone J
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Michigan, National, Primary Care
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An International Health Track is Associated with Care for Underserved US Populations in Subsequent Clinical Practice
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Examines the association between graduate medical education in global health and subsequent care of the underserved in the United States. Addresses how this may improve the distribution of primary care physicians, including the number in rural areas.
Author: Bazemore AW, Goldenhar LM, Lindsell CJ, Diller PM, Huntington MK
Location: Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 3(2), 130-7
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Rural
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Iowa Health Professions Tracking Center Annual Physician Supply Report: January - December 2010
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Uses the Iowa Health Professions Inventory to track the supply of Iowa physicians. Includes physician supply, new practices vs practices closings, primary care, international medical graduates, and specialties.
Organization: Office of Statewide Clinical Education Programs
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, International Medical Graduates, Iowa, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Podiatrists, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Supply and Demand
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Medicaid and CHIP: Most Physicians Serve Covered Children but Have Difficulty Referring Them for Specialty Care
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Examines physician willingness to serve children covered by Medicaid and CHIP and difficulty physicians experience in referring them for specialty care. Includes urban and rural primary care physician participation rates.
Organization: Government Accountability Office
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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A Model Health Care Delivery System for Medicaid
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Supports creating Community Health Center and Academic Medical Partnerships (CHAMPS), a type of accountable care organization. Describes how CHAMPS would expand access to primary care for the newly insured while increasing the training pipeline for primary care providers.
Author: Rieselbach RE, Kellermann AL
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 364(26), 2476-8
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Trends and Emerging Issues
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The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services, Minutes of Meeting - June 15-17th, 2011
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Provides a summary of committee meeting minutes. Discusses rural health and health care in Michigan. Covers the impact of programs under the Affordable Care Act, including provider payment accountability programs. Describes Michigan's programs for provider training and placement in primary care and rural areas.
Organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Care Quality, Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Michigan, National, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural
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National Advisory Council (NAC) on the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Executive Summary of Meeting – June 22-23, 2011
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Provides a summary of committee meeting minutes. Discusses program and research updates including a new primary care website and improved strategies for recruitment and retention.
Organization: National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: National, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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A National Agenda for Research in Collaborative Care: Papers from the Collaborative Care Research Network Research Development Conference
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Provides three papers developed from the Collaborative Care Research Network Research Development Conference in October 2009. Outlines a research agenda for examining care coordination between primary care and mental health treatment. Discusses the factors involved in studying care integration.
Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Author: Miller BF, Kessler R, Peek CJ, Kallenberg G
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Care Coordination, National, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods
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Partnering Urban Academic Medical Centers and Rural Primary Care Clinicians to Provide Complex Chronic Disease Care
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Describes a new model of health care education and delivery, Project ECHO, which enables specialists to work with primary care clinicians in underserved areas using telehealth.
Author: Arora S, Kalishman S, Dion D, Som D, Thornton K, et al
Location: Health Affairs, 30(6), 1176-84
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Best Practices and Model Programs, Continuing Education, Health Care Access, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, New Mexico, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Preparing NPs for Primary Care: Unraveling Complexity with Unfolding Cases
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Describes a Behavioral Health Therapeutics course developed and taught in the first semester of a Doctor of Nursing Practice program. Highlights Backward Design by Wiggins and McTighe, Zull's model for engaging the brain in the Implementation phase, and grading criteria created from Tanner's "Case for Cases: A Pedagogy for Developing Habits of Thought" in the evaluation phase.
Author: Bennett C, Kennedy S, Donato AS
Location: The Journal of Nursing Education, 50(6), 328-331
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, National, Nurse Practitioners, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Primary Health Care in Community Health Centers and Comparison with Office-Based Practice
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Examines the roles of nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs), and nurse midwives (CNMs) in community health centers (CHCs). Compares primary care physicians in CHCs with office-based physicians. Discusses how CHC staffing patterns may serve as models for office practices as primary care demand increases.
Author: Hing E, Hooker RS, Ashman JJ
Location: Journal of Community Health, 36(3), 406-13
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Midwives, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care
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Results of the 2010 Medical School Enrollment Survey
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Addresses medical school enrollment growth. Reports on related concerns, such as the number of clinical training sites and the impact of the economic environment. Identifies whether medical schools are instituting or considering initiatives to
encourage primary care.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Education and Training, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Trained to Avoid Primary Care
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Offers a perspective from an internal medicine resident on how residencies deter physicians from pursuing primary care. Highlights the lack of continuity in the primary care experience.
Author: Dowdy DW
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 154(11), 776-7
Date: 6/2011
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Tagged keywords: General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Specialty Choice
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Accounting for Graduate Medical Education Production of Primary Care Physicians and General Surgeons: Timing of Measurement Matters
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Identifies a large decrease in the the number of physicians in primary care or general surgery two to fours years after completing their first residency. Discusses the implications for graduate medical education policies using a primary care threshold requirement.
Author: Petterson S, Burke M, Phillips R, Teevan B
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(5), 605-8
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: General Surgeons, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Residency Programs, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Are Nurse Practitioners the Solution to Shortage of Primary-Care Doctors?
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Addresses how nurse practitioners can improve access to care in a seven minute video.
Organization: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, National, Nurse Practitioners, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Commentary: Improving the Supply and Distribution of Primary Care Physicians
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Discusses how to address the maldistribution of physicians with a focus on primary care. Offers a commentary on the article "Accounting for graduate medical education production of primary care physicians and general surgeons."
Author: Dorsey ER, Nicholson S, Frist WH
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(5), 541-3
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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A Comparison of Primary Care Dentist Trends, 2000 and 2010
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Presents tables and figures comparing Kansas primary care dentist supply between 2000 and 2010. Looks at Frontier, Rural and Urban population settings.
Organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Author: Lindbloom R, Bukovatz R
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Kansas, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Density of Surgeons Is Significantly Associated with Reduced Risk of Deaths from Motor Vehicle Crashes in US Counties
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Examines the effect of surgeon and general practitioner availability on deaths from motor vehicle crashes by county. Supports including general surgeons as primary care providers. Addresses the impact of rural location, poverty, and education level.
Author: Chang DC, Eastman B, Talamini MA, Osen HB, Tran Cao HS, Coimbra R
Location: Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 212(5), 862-6
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Surgeons, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Five Prescriptions for Ensuring the Future of Primary Care: Proceedings from the Health Education Summit
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Reports on the Health Education Summit held in October, 2010 which focused on the future of primary care. Addresses education, team-based care, integration of behavioral health into primary care, and other issues. Identifies key obstacles and offers five specific recommendations.
Organizations: American College of Physicians, United Health Foundation
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Education and Training, National, Primary Care
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Hawaii’s Physician Workforce: Update
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Offers presentation slides that include primary care provider supply data. Includes maps of primary care physician shortages for 2010 projected through 2020.
Organization: Healthcare Association of Hawaii
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Alaska, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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Maryland Physician Workforce Study: Applying the Health Resources and Services Administration Method to Maryland Data
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Examines the adequacy of physician supply in Maryland by region for primary care, medical specialties, surgical specialties, and other. Addresses Medicaid and Medicare acceptance. Includes a lengthy discussion of methods used.
Organization: Maryland Health Care Commission
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Maryland, Medicare and Medicaid, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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PeaceHealth’s Team Fillingame Uses Patient Activation Measure to Customize the Medical Home
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Highlights a medical group in Oregon that transitioned to a patient-centered medical home. Addresses the team composition, staff roles (including medical office assistants), training, lessons learned, and more.
Organization: Center for the Health Professions
Author: Blash L, Dower C, Chapman S
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Medical Assistants, Oregon, Primary Care
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Physician ''Costs'' in Providing Behavioral Health in Primary Care
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Examines the time pediatricians spent and the reimbursement for addressing behavioral health issues in rural primary care practices. Supports integrating behavioral health services into pediatric primary care settings.
Author: Meadows T, Valleley R, Haack MK, Thorson R, Evans J
Location: Clinical Pediatrics, 50(5), 447-55
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, General Pediatricians, Physicians, Primary Care
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Primary Care Physician Workforce and Medicare Beneficiaries' Health Outcomes
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Reports on a detailed examination of the relationship between adult primary care physician supply and patient outcomes. Identifies an association between more FTEs in ambulatory primary care and better health outcomes.
Author: Chang C, Stukel TA, Flood AB, Goodman DC
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 305(20), 2096-2104
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Health Care Quality, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Primary Care: The Role of Physician-Patient Concordance
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Examines the impact of racial/ethnic concordance (matching) between patients and physicians on primary care outcomes. Includes information on the racial composition of patient panels by physician and practice characteristics.
Author: Strumpf EC
Location: Medical Care, 49(5), 496-503
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Report of the Responses to the IU School of Medicine 2010 Graduate Medical Education Exit Survey
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Reports on a survey of Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) residency and fellowship graduates. Addresses practice plans, examines factors affecting graduates’ practice location decisions, and evaluates program outcomes. Includes the survey instrument used.
Organization: Indiana AHEC Program
Author: Kochhar K,Varma RA, Zollinger TW, Nalin P
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Indiana, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Student Debt Load, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Vermont Primary Care Workforce Development Strategic Plan
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Offers a plan to attain and retain a sufficient primary care workforce to provide quality health care for Vermonters. Estimates Vermont's primary care workforce supply and offers recommendations. Addresses state health reforms and medical home programs. Lists workforce needs in Appendix 1.
Organization: Vermont Department of Health
Date: 5/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Dentists, Health Reform, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Medicare and Medicaid, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand, Vermont
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Changes in Medical Students' Views of Internal Medicine Careers From 1990 to 2007
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Analyzes surveys of medical students with a focus on student interest in general internal medicine over time. Examines factors affecting interest in primary care.
Author: Schwartz MD, Durning S, Linzer M, Hauer KE
Location: Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(8), 744-9
Date: 4/2011
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Tagged keywords: General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Characterizing Medical Providers for Jail Inmates in New York State
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Discusses primary care providers for county jail inmates in New York State.
Author: Shalev N, Chiasson MA, Dobkin JF, Lee G
Location: American Journal of Public Health, 101(4), 693-8
Date: 4/2011
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Tagged keywords: New York, Primary Care
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Informing Rural Primary Care Workforce Policy: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?
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Provides a review of Rural Health Research Center literature from 2000-2010, relevant to the rural primary care workforce. Includes information on supply and demand, recruitment and retention, training pipeline and education, lifestyle and compensation, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, international medical graduates, and new directions for primary care.
Organization: Rural Health Research Gateway
Author: McEllistrem-Evenson A
Date: 4/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Education and Training, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Nurse-led Medical Homes: Increasing Access to Quality Care
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Links: A Home Next Door , At the Center of the Safety Net , Small, Independent, and Out in Front
Provides three case studies of nurse-managed health clinics. Addresses how nurse professionals can provide primary care services in underserved areas.
Organization: Nursing Alliance for Quality Care
Date: 4/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, New Hampshire, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Pennsylvania, Primary Care
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Physician Willingness and Resources to Serve More Medicaid Patients: Perspectives from Primary Care Physicians
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Reports on a study of primary care physicians' willingness to accept Medicaid patients after health reform. Addresses factors that discourage Medicaid participation and practice resources that affect the ability to meet increased Medicaid demand.
Organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Date: 4/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Reflections on Why Pediatrics Does Not Have a Primary Care Physician Shortage at Present
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Offers a perspective on why there is not a shortage of pediatricians. Discusses a shared philosophy, the medical problems pediatricians address, pay scales, ties with other child-focused physicians, and respect.
Author: Felice ME
Location: Journal of Pediatrics, 158(4), 523-4
Date: 4/2011
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Tagged keywords: General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Rural-Urban Distribution of the U.S. Geriatrics Physician Workforce
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Examines the rural-urban distribution of geriatricians from 2000 to 2008 using the number of physicians per county elderly population. Compares the distribution of general internal medicine and family physicians to geriatricians.
Author: Peterson LE, Bazemore A, Bragg EJ, Xierali I, Warshaw GA
Location: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 59(4), 699-703
Date: 4/2011
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Geriatrics, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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The Imperative for Residency Innovation
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Discusses the need for innovation in primary care residency training in a column from the president of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
Organization: Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Author: Dickinson WP
Location: Family Medicine, 43(4), 283-5
Date: 4/2011
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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2010 New York Residency Training Outcomes: A Summary of Responses to the 2010 New York Resident Exit Survey
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Reports on an exit survey of physicians completing residency and fellowship programs in New York by specialty. Covers demand, demographics, student debt, in-state retention, international medical graduates, subspecialization, starting income, and more.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Author: Armstrong DP and Forte GJ
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Geriatrics, International Medical Graduates, New York, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Residency Programs, Student Debt Load, Supply and Demand
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AAFP Annual Report on the National Resident Matching Program: 2010
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Includes the number of applicants to graduate medical programs for the 2010-11 academic year, specialty choice, and trends in specialty selection.
Organization: American Academy of Family Physicians
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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At Martin’s Point in Maine, Primary Care Teams for Chronic Disease Patients
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Link: Abstract
Describes how a primary care practice used teams to help patients control their blood pressure.
Author: Feder JL
Location: Health Affairs 30(3), 394-6
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, Maine, Primary Care
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Better to Best: Value-Driving Elements of the Patient Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations
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Provides a consensus document on how new care models can improve access, care coordination, health information technology, and payment models. Offers policy recommendations. Reports on a Consensus Meeting held September 2010.
Organizations: Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, The Commonwealth Fund, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Care Access, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, National, Policy, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Building a Healthier Future Together: Alliance Goals, Accomplishments & Next Steps
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Discusses health care challenges for the island of Hawaii, including workforce shortages. Offers brief summaries of projects and programs from the Hawaii Island Healthcare Alliance to address the challenges. Includes future goals for the organization.
Organization: Hawaii Island Healthcare Alliance
Author: Pellegrin K, Surber R, Vitousek S
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Hawaii, Hospitals, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Continuity of Care in a Rural Critical Access Hospital: Surgeons as Primary Care Providers
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Link: Abstract
Proposes a practice model for general surgeons to provide primary care. Suggests this model could be used to recruit medical students into surgical training and reduce shortages of rural surgeons and primary care physicians simultaneously.
Author: Rossi A, Rossi D, Rossi M, Rossi P.
Location: American Journal of Surgery, 201(3), 359-62
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, General Surgeons, National, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Driving Value in Medicaid Primary Care: The Role of Shared Support Networks for Physician Practices
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Identifies how states can support primary care transformation by purchasing shared practice supports using Medicaid. Addresses medical homes, health teams, leadership development, accountable care organizations and more.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Highsmith N, Berenson J
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Expansion of Coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Primary Care Utilization
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Estimates the change in primary care visits by state given the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and the number of additional primary care physicians needed for each state.
Author: Hofer AN, Abraham JM, Moscovice I
Location: Milbank Quarterly, 89(1), 69-89
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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A Health Plan Spurs Transformation of Primary Care Practices into Better-Paid Medical Homes
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Describes how a health plan in New York helped practices become medical homes, reduce costs, and increase primary care physician salaries in order to promote interest in primary care.
Author: Feder JL
Location: Health Affairs, 30(3), 397-9
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Compensation, New York, Physicians, Primary Care
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Improving Access to Adult Primary Care in Medicaid: Exploring the Potential Role of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
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Examines the potential of nurse practitioners and physician assistants to increase the supply of primary care providers. Addresses the impact of increased Medicaid coverage, scope of practice laws, policy support, care quality, and more.
Organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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Improving the Coordination of Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries in Pennsylvania
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Describes a team model that uses care managers and outreach teams to address barriers to better health, improve care transitions, and reach out to the community.
Author: Bielaszka-DuVernay C
Location: Health Affairs, 30(3), 426-30
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Hospitals, Pennsylvania, Primary Care
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The Income Gap: Specialties vs Primary Care or Procedural vs Nonprocedural Specialties?
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Compares 1995 and 2008 median income for physician specialties. Discusses how Medicare's Resource-Based Relative Value Scale has created income disparities for all nonprocedural physician specialties and the impact on workforce supply.
Author: Sigsbee B
Location: Neurology, 76(10), 923-6
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Match Report 2011
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Summarizes 2011 match results with a focus on internal medicine. Highlights the increased interest in primary care.
Organization: Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Medical Student Residency Training Slots in South Carolina
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Examines the allocation of residency slots in South Carolina between specialties and primary care and their impact on the state's physician workforce.
Organization: South Carolina Office for Healthcare Workforce Analysis and Planning
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, South Carolina
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Performance Feedback: An Exploratory Study to Examine the Acceptability and Impact for Interdisciplinary Primary Care Teams
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Examines how performance feedback may engage interdisciplinary team members in improving the quality of primary care and related challenges.
Author: Johnston S, Green M, Thille P, Savage C, Roberts L, Russell G, Hogg W
Location: BMC Family Practice, 12, 14
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, International, Primary Care
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Primary Care Physician Workforce
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Analyzes the provisions in the Affordable Care Act that are intended to strengthen the primary care physician workforce. Summarizes what has been done so far to implement them. Identifies key issues.
Organizations: George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Author: Teitelbaum J
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Primary Care’s (New) Pressures and Possibilities
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Provides an hour-long podcast on new primary care models. Includes guests from Canada and the United States such as Dr. Wasson from Dartmouth and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement president, Karen Boudreau.
Organization: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Author: Boudreau K, Davis C, Wasson JH, Allison S
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Reform, National, Primary Care
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Sharing Resources: Opportunities for Smaller Primary Care Practices to Increase Their Capacity for Patient Care
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Highlights the benefits of small- and medium-sized physician practices sharing resources. Addresses health information technology and care coordination, after-hours care, and quality improvement efforts. Identifies successful shared-resource models.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Fryer A, Doty MM, Audet AJ
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Clinics, Health Care Quality, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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State Variation in Primary Care Physician Supply: Implications for Health Reform Medicaid Expansions
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Examines the potential impact of Medicaid expansion on primary care physician demand. Identifies the current primary care physician supply and the percent accepting new Medicaid patients.
Organization: Center for Studying Health System Change
Author: Cunningham PJ
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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A Summary of the 2010 Dunning Symposium: The Practice of Dentistry for the 21st Century
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Summarizes major issues in the field of dentistry that impact the oral health of the public. Includes discussion of healthcare reform legislation, dentists as primary care providers, trends in dental education, and the emerging mid-level dental practitioner.
Author: Lamster IB, Formicola A
Location: Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 71(Supplement s2), S34-S37
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Education and Training, Health Reform, National, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Transforming Physician Practices To Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Lessons From The National Demonstration Project
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Discusses the achievements and challenges faced by organizations participating in the national medical home demonstration project. Covers care teams, information technology, payment reform, and health care neighborhoods.
Author: Nutting PA, Crabtree BJ, Miller WL, Stange KC, Stewart E, Jaen C
Location: Health Affairs, 30(3), 439-45
Date: 3/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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An Academic–Community Partnership to Improve Care for the Underserved
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Describes and evaluates the Transforming Education and Community Health (TEACH) Program, a third-year residency track program intended to increase interest in general internal medicine and care quality for underserved populations.
Author: Fancher TL, Keenan C, Meltvedt C, Stocker T, Harris T, Morfín J, McCarron R, Kulkarni-Date M, Henderson MC
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(2), 252-8
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, California, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Specialty Choice
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Calling All Docs: Primary Care Shortage Looms Large
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Discusses how the supply and demand of primary care physicians will be affected by health reform. Suggests new recruitment and retention models are needed.
Author: Aston G
Location: Hospitals & Health Networks
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Reform, Hospitals, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand
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Coordination between Emergency and Primary Care Physicians
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Reports on a qualitative study of emergency and primary care physicians' ability and willingness to communicate and coordinate care. Identifies barriers and policy implications.
Organizations: Center for Studying Health System Change, National Institute for Health Care Reform
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas 2000 to 2020: Research Summary
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Provides an overview of osteopathic physicians in Kansas based on licensure data. Covers demographics, specialties, county of practice, and work settings. Highlights how they can help address access to health care in the state.
Organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Kansas, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, 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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Guidelines for Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition and Accreditation Programs
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Recommends guidelines for recognition and/or accreditation programs to help assess whether a given practice is delivering care based on the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model.
Organizations: American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Osteopathic Association
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Hawaii’s Healthcare Industry Skill Panels: Initial Report and Addendum to the Comprehensive State Workforce Development Plan
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Presents panels that address health and health care workforce issues in Hawaii. Discusses the goals and strategies for each panel. Covers primary care, long-term care, nursing and more. Includes statewide and regional health care workforce data on growth and job openings in appendices.
Organizations: Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, State of Hawaii Workforce Development Council
Author: Workforce Development Council, Hawaii Department of Labor & Industrial Relations
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Hawaii, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand, Workforce Pipeline
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Health Care Reform and Primary Care: Training Physicians for Tomorrow's Challenges
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Offers a commentary on the need for academic medical centers to take the lead in training primary care physicians to meet the needs of the changing health care system.
Author: Caudill TS, Lofgren R, Jennings CD, Karpf M
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(2), 158-60
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Health, United States, 2010 with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans
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Presents national trends in health statistics. Addresses the health workforce on pages 345-53. Includes trends in the supply of physicians and dentists by state, enrollment and diversity trend data for a variety of occupations, physician specialty trend data, and more.
Organization: National Center for Health Statistics
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Dentists, Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, National, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Optometrists, Osteopathic Physicians, Pharmacists, Physicians, Podiatrists, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Public Health, State-by-State, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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The Impact of Rural Training Experiences on Medical Students: A Critical Review
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Link: Abstract
Reviews the literature on the outcomes of undergraduate medical school rural training experiences. Focuses on student performance, career choice, perceptions of the experience, and how rural rotations differ from traditional ones. Identifies areas for future research.
Author: Barrett FA, Lipsky MS, Nawal Lutfiyya M
Location: Academic Medicine, 86(2), 259-63
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Specialty Choice
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A Recipe for Medical Schools to Produce Primary Care Physicians
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Link: Extract
Offers a perspective on what medical schools can do to increase the supply of primary care physicians.
Author: Smith SR
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 364(6), 496-7
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Reliability of Medical Group and Physician Performance Measurement in the Primary Care Setting
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Link: Abstract
Examines the reliability of performance measurement for practice sites and individual physicians using statewide data from Massachusetts.
Author: Sequist TD, Schneider EC, Li A, Rogers WH, Safran DG
Location: Medical Care, 49(2), 126-131
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Massachusetts, Physicians, Primary Care
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Research Brief: Insurance Coverage and Access to Care in Primary Care Shortage Areas
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Identifies a pent-up need for health care services for nonelderly people in health professional shortage areas (HPSAs). Discusses the policy implications.
Organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Author: Hoffman C, Damico A, Garfield R
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, National, Policy, Primary Care
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The States' Next Challenge — Securing Primary Care for Expanded Medicaid Populations
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Offers a viewpoint on how primary care shortages will affect access for Medicaid beneficiaries when eligibility expands. Lists a access-challenge score for each state based on primary care capacity and state Medicaid policies.
Author: Leighton K, Jones K, Shin P, Bruen B, Hayes K
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 364(6), 493-5
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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The States’ Next Challenge — Securing Primary Care for Expanded Medicaid Populations
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Discusses the shortage of primary care providers due to the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Includes a rank for each state according to the state's primary care capacity to match the expanding demand.
Organization: Massachusetts Medical Society
Author: Ku L, Jones K, Shine P, Bruen D, Hayes K,
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 364 (6), 493-495
Date: 2/2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, Primary Care, State-by-State, Supply and Demand
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Broadening the Scope of Nursing Practice
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Perspective piece that recommends establishing a standardized and broadened scope of practice for nurse practitioners in all states to address primary care needs. Discusses current scope of practice laws for NPs and recent trends.
Author: Fairman JA, Rowe JW, Hassmiller S, Shalala DE
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 364(3), 193-6
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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The Contribution of New York Graduate Medical Education Programs to Primary Care Capacity in the State's Neediest Communities
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Examines the contribution of New York's GME programs to the supply of primary care physicians in Health Professional Shortage Areas in New York. Includes five sub-state regions in the analysis.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: New York, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Evaluation of Patient Centered Medical Home Practice Transformation Initiatives
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Link: Abstract
Reviews lessons learned by Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) demonstration projects to guide PCMH evaluations. Addresses the need to evaluate role changes for health care providers and training gaps.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Crabtree BF, Chase SM, Wise CG, Schiff GD, Schmidt LA, Goyzueta JR, Malouin RA, Payne SM, Quinn MT, Nutting PA, Miller WL, Jaén CR
Location: Medical Care, 49(1), 10-16
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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Fact Sheet on Georgia’s Medical Schools, January 2011
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Examines enrollment trends in Georgia's medical schools, tuition rates, the percent of graduates entering primary care, and instate retention. Offers policy recommendations.
Organization: Georgia Board for Physician Workforce
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Georgia, Physicians, Primary Care
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Increasing Primary Care Rates, Maximizing Medicaid Access and Quality
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Highlights issues related to primary care payment policy. Describes how Medicaid stakeholders can plan strategically to use the short-term payment increase to improve primary care quality and access.
Organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
Author: McGinnis T, Berenson J, Highsmith N
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Medicaid’s New “Health Home” Option
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Describes the Medicaid health home services option, which allows designated providers or health teams to coordinate behavioral and mental health care for people with multiple chronic illnesses.
Organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Primary Care
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Medicare Beneficiary Access to Primary Care Physicians – Better in Rural, but Still Worrisome
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Examines the willingness of primary care physicians and general surgeons to accept new Medicare patients. Compares rural and urban areas. Identifies reasons physicians choose not to accept new Medicare patients.
Organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Author: MacKinney AC, Xu L, Mueller KJ
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: General Surgeons, Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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NACHC 2010 Assessment of Behavioral Health Services in Federally Qualified Health Centers
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Examines the level of coordination between primary care and behavioral health services in community health centers. Reports the number of behavioral health staff employed at community health centers by provider type. Identifies training needs.
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Author: Lardiere MR, Jones E, Perez M
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Care Coordination, Federally Qualified Health Centers, National, Primary Care
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Opportunities to Improve Recruitment and Retention of a Primary Care Workforce for Vermont
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Summarizes factors affecting the recruitment and retention of primary care clinicians in Vermont and offers strategies for addressing those issues. Identifies the number of licensed primary care providers in the state, their average salaries, and top reasons for practicing medicine in Vermont.
Organization: Bi-State Primary Care Association
Author: Primary Care Workforce Committee
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand, Vermont
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Realizing Health Reform's Potential: How the Affordable Care Act Will Strengthen Primary Care and Benefit Patients, Providers, and Payers
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Describes how the Affordable Care Act addresses America's primary care system. Examines the potential impact those efforts will have on providers, patients, and payers.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Abrams MK, Nuzum R, Mika S, Lawlor G
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Specialty Care and the Patient-Centered Medical Home
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Link: Abstract
Estimates the workload implications if primary care physicians provided more follow-up care than specialists after adult ambulatory visits. Supports medical neighborhoods where primary care physicians and specialists collaborate in care provision.
Author: Hollingsworth JM, Saint S, Hayward RA, Rogers MA, Zhang L, Miller DC
Location: Medical Care, 49(1), 1-3
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Training Physicians for Rural Practice: Capitalizing on Local Expertise to Strengthen Rural Primary Care
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Introduces HRSA's Rural Training Track Technical Assistance Program. Highlights how rural training tracks help address rural primary care shortages and the challenges they face.
Organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Date: 1/2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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The 2010 New Jersey Resident Exit Survey Final Report
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Reports on a survey of physicians completing a residency or fellowship training program in New Jersey and whether they plan to practice in state or continue their education. Addresses practice plans, respondent characteristics, location of medical school training, education debt, expected income and practice hours, job search, IMGs by specialty, and more.
Organization: New Jersey Council of Teaching Hospitals
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Diversity, General Surgeons, International Medical Graduates, New Jersey, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Residency Programs, Rural, Student Debt Load, Supply and Demand
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2011 Review of Physician and CRNA Recruiting Incentives
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Reports on physician and certified registered nurse anesthetist recruitment from a major recruiting firm. Details specialties in demand, salary guarantees offered, and other recruitment incentives. Identifies a growth in demand for primary care physicians.
Author: Merritt Hawkins & Associates
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, National, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand
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2011-2016 Texas State Health Plan: A Roadmap to a Healthy Texas
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Discusses the current state of Texas health care and provides recommendations to the governor and legislature. Provides data on demographics, supply, and distribution of various health professions in section II. Covers topics relating to the nursing workforce including recruitment, retention, technology, and primary care in appendix II.
Organization: Texas Statewide Health Coordinating Council
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Geriatrics, Health Care Access, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Health Technologists and Technicians, Laboratory Professionals, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Mental Health Counselors, Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Occupational Therapy Occupations, Optometrists, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Podiatrists, Policy, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Public Health, Radiologic Technologists, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, Supply and Demand, Texas, Vision Care Occupations
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Challenges in Recruiting Minority-Serving Private Practice Primary Care Physicians to a Quality Improvement Project
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Link: Abstract
Describes an organization's experience with recruiting minority-serving private practice primary care physicians to an ambulatory quality improvement (QI) project. Identifies barriers and incentives to participation.
Author: Meehan TP Jr, Van Hoof TJ, Galusha D, Barr JK, Curry M, Kelvey-Albert M, Meehan TP
Location: American Journal of Medical Quality, 26(5), 357-63
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Connecticut, Health Care Quality, Physicians, Primary Care
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Colorado State Health Workforce Planning Report: Colorado Health Workforce Development Strategy
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Provides recommendations for addressing health care workforce challenges in Colorado. Covers workforce planning, education, recruitment, retention, pipeline efforts, loan repayment programs and policy. Includes data on health professionals employment on pages 23-24. Funded by HRSA State Planning Grant.
Organizations: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado Primary Care Office
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Colorado, Education and Training, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Policy, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand, Workforce Pipeline
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A Comparative Analysis of Factors that Hinder Primary Care Physicians' and Specialist Physicians' Ability to Provide High-Quality Care
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Link: Abstract
Examines issues that hinder physicians from providing excellent care, such as insurance decisions, time with patients, and patient being unable to pay for care. Compares differences between problems identified by primary care and specialist physicians.
Author: Deshpande SP, DeMello J
Location: Health Care Manager, 30(2), 172-8
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Deskilling and Adaptation among Primary Care Physicians Using Two Work Innovations
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Link: Abstract
Reports on interviews with primary care physicians regarding their experience and perceptions related to electronic medical records and clinical guidelines. Focuses on deskilling outcomes such as decreased clinical knowledge and patient trust.
Author: Hoff T
Location: Health Care Management Review, 36(4), 338-48
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Doctors of Chiropractic Can Improve the U.S. Primary Care Workforce Challenge
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Advocates for utilization of chiropractors to address the primary care workforce shortage.
Organizations: American Chiropractic Association, Association of Chiropractic Colleges, Congress of Chiropractic State Associations
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Chiropractors, Health Care Access, National, Primary Care
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Effect of Closure of a Local Safety-Net Hospital on Primary Care Physicians’ Perceptions of Their Role in Patient Care
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Examines the impact of a hospital closure on local primary care physicians, safety-net training opportunities, and workforce retention, including the loss of faculty. Supports including primary care physicians in the planning of major health care delivery system changes.
Author: Walker KO, Clarke R, Ryan G, Brown AF
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 9(6), 496-503
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: California, Hospitals, Physicians, Primary Care
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Health Workforce Vacancies in Arkansas
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Presents workforce statistics and trends for 90 health professionals by type of facility and regions in the state of Arkansas.
Organizations: Arkansas AHEC Program, Arkansas Center for Rural Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Author: Bynum A, Irwin C, Jarry J
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Allied Health, Area Health Education Centers, Arkansas, Clinics, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Hospitals, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Supply and Demand
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Incorporating Population Medicine into Primary Care Residency Training
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Supports including preventative medicine training in primary care education. Describes the structure of three family medicine residency programs with Masters of Public Health (MPH) coursework and summarizes what their graduates are doing. Reviews the implications for redesigning primary care training.
Author: Dysinger WS, King V, Foster TC, Geffken D
Location: Family Medicine, 43(7), 480-6
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: California, Family Medicine Physicians, New Hampshire, Oregon, Physicians, Primary Care, Public Health, Residency Programs
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Increased Autonomy for Nurse Practitioners as a Solution to the Physician Shortage
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Link: Abstract
Addresses how nurse practitioners (NPs) can fill the void in underserved areas where there is a shortage of primary care physicians. Advocates for the removal of the statutory requirement that NPs practice in collaboration with a physician.
Author: Pericak A
Location: The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association, 42(1-2), 4-7
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: New York, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Integrated Joslin Performance Improvement/CME Program: A New Paradigm for Better Diabetes Care
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Link: Abstract
Discusses using continuing medical education as a performance improvement tool. Highlights the Joslin Professional Education Continuum (JPEC) model.
Author: Brown JA, Beaser RS, Neighbours J, Shuman J
Location: The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 31(1), 57-63
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Continuing Education, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Kansas Health Care Workforce Partnership Symposium
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Presents Kansas health care workforce information for the Workforce Partnership Symposium on April 18-1, 2011. Summarizes education, supply and demand, recruitment and retention efforts, funding opportunities, and more for physicians, physician assistants, and advanced registered nurse practitioners. Includes workforce data maps in attachments.
Organization: KANSASWORKS State Board
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Financial Aid, Kansas, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Shortage Designations, Supply and Demand
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Missouri Rural Health Biennial Report
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Discusses the activities of the Missouri Office of Rural Health. Includes data on supply of primary care physicians and dentists on pages 16-17.
Organizations: Missouri Office of Rural Health, Missouri Primary Care Office
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Dental Occupations, Dentists, Family Medicine Physicians, Missouri, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Providing Primary Care in California Community Clinics
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Reports on a survey of community clinics in California where physician assistants (PAs) or nurse practitioners (NPs) provide the majority of primary care. Discusses patient demand, clinician supply, and cost effectiveness as reasons to use NPs or PAs. Addresses scope of practice issues.
Organization: Center for the Health Professions
Author: Dower C, Chapman S, Patton J, Dumlao A
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: California, Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative Change Package
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Provides a catalog of best practices to help teams change their delivery system to provide patient-centered clinical pharmacy services and improve patient safety. Addresses how to integrate pharmacists into the health care team. Includes a supplement on cultural competency.
Organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Author: Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Health Care Quality, National, Pharmacists, Primary Care
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Physician Assistant Self-Assessment of Entry-Level Competency: A Comparison with Observations of Supervising Physicians
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Link: Abstract
Examines physician assistants' and supervising physicians' perceptions of adequacy of physician assistant (PA) preparation at entry-level for effective practice in the primary care setting.
Author: Marincic PZ, Ludwig DB
Location: Journal of Physician Assistant Education, 22(4), 23-33
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, National, Physician Assistants, Primary Care
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Potential Impact of Health Reform on Rural North Dakota Health Workforce
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Discusses the health care workforce challenges in North Dakota. Covers the provisions in the Affordable Care Act that address these challenges.
Organization: University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Dental Occupations, Education and Training, Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, North Dakota, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Practice Transformation in Teaching Settings: Lessons From the I³ PCMH Collaborative
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Describes the design, implementation, and initial outcomes of an academic patient-centered medical home (PCMH) collaborative. Examines the feasibility of a collaborative of primary care residency programs.
Author: Reid A, Baxley E, Stanek M, Newton W
Location: Family Medicine, 43(7), 487-94
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, North Carolina, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, South Carolina, Virginia
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Predictive Modeling the Physician Assistant Supply: 2010-2025
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Link: Abstract
Projects the supply of active physician assistants through 2025 using a simulation model. Includes estimates for the number of physician assistants in primary care and discusses the potential impact on the primary care physician shortage.
Organization: The Lewin Group
Author: Hooker RS, Cawley JF, Everett CM
Location: Public Health Reports, 126(5), 708-16
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: National, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care: Today and Tomorrow
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Addresses the shortage of primary care providers. Discusses how new incentives, business models, and information technology can help meet demand.
Organization: Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Health Reform, National, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Public Policy Agenda 2011: Addressing Colorado's Primary Care Provider Shortage
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Discusses the anticipated shortage of primary care providers and registered nurses by 2025 and 2020, respectively, in Colorado. Identifies actions the State of Colorado should take in 2011.
Organization: Colorado Rural Health Center
Author: Colorado Health Professions Workforce Policy Collaborative
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Colorado, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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A Qualitative Analysis of Career Transitions Made by Internal Medicine–Pediatrics Residency Training Graduates
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Examines factors leading to career transitions among internal medicine and pediatrics (med-peds) graduates. Discusses the implications for career counseling, primary care, policies to recruit and retain physicians within certain fields, and training costs.
Author: Burns H, Auvergne L, Haynes-Maslow LE, Liles EA Jr., Perrin EM, Steiner MJ
Location: North Carolina Medical Journal, 72(3), 191-5
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: General Internal Medicine Physicians, North Carolina, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Quality Matters Case Study: Legacy Clinic Emanuel -- Increasing Access and Efficiency through Team-Based Primary Care
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Describes a model program for building interdisciplinary care teams as part of a medical home model. Evaluates the effectiveness of the program and identifies lessons learned.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Hostetter M
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Clinics, Oregon, Primary Care
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Quality Matters: Strengthening the Primary Care Workforce to Meet Population Needs
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Reviews primary care workforce trends. Addresses workforce shortages, the use of teams, scope of practice laws related to nurse practitioners and physician assistants, Medicaid reimbursement, and graduate medical education.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Klein S
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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The Supply of Physicians and Care for Breast Cancer in Ontario and California, 1998 to 2006
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Compares the effects of the supply of physicians on breast cancer care for California and Ontario. Estimates the regional physician supply needs based on optimum care for breast cancer. Examines primary care physician and obstetrician–gynecologist supply.
Author: Gorey KM, Luginaah IN, Hamm C, Balagurusamy M, Holowaty EJ
Location: Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, 16(2), 47-54
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: California, Health Care Quality, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Survey of UI Medical Graduates Training in Selected Specialties in Non-Iowa Residency Programs: Interest in Returning to Iowa, 2011
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Reports results of a survey of Iowa medical graduates completing their residency training in another state. Presents data on interest in returning to Iowa to practice by specialty from 2007 to 2011.
Organization: Office of Statewide Clinical Education Programs
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Iowa, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Training Primary Care Staff to Deliver a Computer-Assisted Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Program for Anxiety Disorders
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Link: Abstract
Describes and evaluates a training approach used to teach primary care staff to deliver a computer-assisted cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) program for anxiety disorders. Highlights anxiety disorders as a common mental health problem seen in primary care.
Author: Rose RD, Lang AJ, Welch SS, Campbell-Sills L, Chavira DA, Sullivan G, Sherbourne C, Bystritsky A, Stein MB, Roy-Byrne PP, Craske MG
Location: General Hospital Psychiatry, 33(4), 336-42
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Arkansas, Behavioral Health, California, Education and Training, Primary Care, Washington
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Twenty-Sixth Annual Report on Physician Assistant Educational Programs in the United States, 2009-2010
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Additional Link: Presentation of Preliminary Data
Provides detailed information on physician assistant education programs. Covers program requirements, faculty, students, recruitment strategies, primary care specialty choice, salaries, financial aid, demographics, and more. Includes the survey instrument used.
Organization: Physician Assistant Education Association
Date: 2011
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Diversity, Education and Training, Faculty, Financial Aid, National, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods
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2009 Indiana Physician Re-Licensure Survey Report
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Reports on a survey of physicians in Indiana and discusses trends. Covers demographics, residency and fellowship training, employment characteristics, specialties, distribution, and provision of prenatal care. Compares primary care and non-primary care physicians. Includes maps and the survey instrument used.
Organization: Indiana AHEC Program
Author: Zollinger TW, Kochhar K, Coffing JM, Canada ML
Date: 12/2010
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Indiana, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Annual New York Physician Workforce Profile, 2010 Edition
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Provides detailed profiles of New York's physician workforce by specialty, specialty group, county, and region, including urban and rural counties. Covers age distribution, active patient care FTEs per 100,000 people, percent underrepresented minority, health status indicators, and more. Includes the survey instrument used.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Author: Armstrong DP and Forte GJ
Date: 12/2010
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Geriatrics, International Medical Graduates, New York, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Research and Data Collection Methods, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Between-Visit Workload in Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Examines the time and complexity of work done by primary internal medicine physicians between office visits at a medical center. Discusses the implications for physician burnout, lack of interest in primary care, work delegation to non-physicians, and reimbursement.
Author: Doerr E, Galpin K, Jones-Taylor C, Anander S, Demosthenes C, Platt S, Ponkshe S
Location: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(12), 1289-92
Date: 12/2010
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Tagged keywords: General Internal Medicine Physicians, Georgia, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Geographic Maldistribution of Primary Care for Children
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Link: Abstract
Examines the supply and distribution of the general pediatrician and family physician workforce. Includes data for every state and a United States map showing the number of children per child physician.
Author: Shipman SA, Lan J, Chang C, Goodman DC
Location: Pediatrics, Epub 2010 Dec 20
Date: 12/2010
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Physician Assistants 2010 Survey: Statistical Report
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Additional Link: Summary Report
Reports on a survey of physician assistants in Vermont. Includes demographics, supply, distribution by specialty and county, practice characteristics, and comparisons to previous surveys. Identifies the percent accepting new Medicaid and Medicare patients.
Organization: Vermont Department of Health
Date: 12/2010
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Medicare and Medicaid, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Vermont
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A Primary Problem: More Patients Under Federal Health Reform with Fewer Primary Care Doctors Spell Trouble
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Discusses the shortage of primary care providers and contributing factors. Highlights how health reform may increase wait time for appointments.
Organization: National Conference of State Legislatures
Author: Tobler L
Date: 12/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Role Transition in Rural and Remote Primary Health Care Nursing: A Scoping Literature Review
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Link: Abstract
Presents the findings of a scoping literature review examining the transition of nursing roles in primary health care (PHC), with a focus on rural and remote settings.
Author: Banner D, MacLeod ML, Johnston S
Location: The Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 42 (4), 40-57
Date: 12/2010
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Tagged keywords: International, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Rural
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Strengthening Primary and Chronic Care: State Innovations to Transform and Link Small Practices
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Highlights several state initiatives that enabled small physician practices to adopt elements of the patient-centered medical home and chronic care models. Addresses workforce issues.
Organizations: National Academy for State Health Policy, The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Takach M, Gauthier A, Sims-Kastelein K, Kaye N
Date: 12/2010
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Tagged keywords: Colorado, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Policy, Primary Care, Vermont
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Assessing the Impact of Health Reform on the Health Care Workforce
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Summarizes current health workforce issues. Addresses how provisions in the Affordable Care Act will affect the health workforce. Focuses on Michigan but includes national information.
Organization: Michigan Health Council
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Health Reform, Michigan, National, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The “Medical Marshall Plan”: Rebuilding Public Trust in American Medicine
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Supports federal funding for two years of medical school in return for one year of service in general practice prior to completion of residency training.
Author: Shomaker TS
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(11), 1680
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Comprehensive Primary Care for Older Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions
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Link: Abstract
Reviews the literature on primary care models that manage patients with many chronic conditions, focusing on the case of an older woman. Compares three promising models that use health care teams.
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Geriatrics, National, Primary Care
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Diversity in the Physician Workforce: Facts & Figures 2010
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Includes detailed tables on the diversity of allopathic physicians and graduates, where the highest percentage graduated, and where they practice by state. Considers gender, racial, and ethnic diversity. Includes specialty-specific data. Overviews the benefits of a diverse workforce.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Geriatrics, National, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists
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Economic Impact of a Primary Care Career: A Harsh Reality for Medical Students and the Nation
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Introduces an economic model that considers expenses and net income for primary care physicians. Reviews medical school costs, retirement savings, home expenses, other costs, and net physician income. Discusses the possible impact on physicians' choice of specialty.
Author: Palmeri M, Pipas C, Wadsworth E, Zubkoff M
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(11), 1692-7
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load
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Evolution of the Chronic Care Role of the Registered Nurse in Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Discusses implementation of five initiatives at a large academic health center to improve the care of chronically ill patients through the expanded role of RNs in the context of the health care team.
Author: Laughlin CB, Beisel M
Location: Nursing Economic$, 28(6), 409-414
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Education and Training, National, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care
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Interprofessional Primary Care Protocols: A Strategy to Promote an Evidence-Based Approach to Teamwork and the Delivery of Care
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Link: Abstract
Reports on a qualitative study examining the development of interprofessional protocol and pilot implementation. Focuses on the transition to team-based care in Family Health Teams in Canada.
Author: Goldman J, Meuser J, Lawrie L, Rogers J, Reeves S
Location: Journal of Interprofessional Care, 24(6), 653-65
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, International, Primary Care
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The Kansas Medical Student Loan Program: A Successful Tuition–Service Exchange Model
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Describes a program in Kansas that provides tuition and living expenses in return for one year of service for each year of funding.
Author: Chumley H, Honeck S, Kennedy M, Meyer M
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(11), 1676
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Kansas, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Physicians, Primary Care
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Moving the Medical Home Forward: Innovations in Primary Care Training and Delivery
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Highlights how various academic medical practices have incorporated elements of the Patient-Centered Medical Home.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Best Practices and Model Programs, California, Care Coordination, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Rhode Island, Texas
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Nurses Joining Family Doctors in Primary Care Practices: Perceptions of Patients with Multimorbidity
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Explores the perceptions and expectations of patients with multimorbidity regarding nurses' presence in primary care practices.
Author: Fortin M, Hudon C, Gallagher F, Ntetu AL, Maltais D, Soubhi H
Location: BMC Family Practice, 11 (84)
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: International, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care
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The Primary Care Med-ED Plan: Reducing Medical Student Indebtedness While Expanding Primary Care
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Outlines a medical school program with a shorter completion time, a loan forgiveness program, and an internship program emphasizing primary care.
Author: Wagoner NE, Suriano JR
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(11), 1684
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Primary Care Shortages in Urban Underserved Communities: What Can Be Done?
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Contains a Q&A with Dr. Kara Odom Walker on strategies for increasing the number of primary care physicians in urban underserved areas.
Organization: Health Workforce Information Center
Author: Trude L
Location: Health Workforce News
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs
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Primary Care Workforce
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Offers resources for state policymakers on issues related to the primary care workforce. Lists relevant reports, publications, webinars, and meeting sessions. Identifies the primary care workforce provisions in the Affordable Care Act.
Organization: National Conference of State Legislatures
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Policy, Primary Care
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Recruiting and Retaining Primary Care Physicians in Urban Underserved Communities: The Importance of Having a Mission to Serve
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Link: Abstract
Examines factors that encourage physicians to practice primary care in underserved areas based on in-depth interviews.
Author: Odom Walker K, Ryan G, Ramey R, Nunez FL, Beltran R, Splawn RG, Brown AF
Location: American Journal of Public Health, 100(11), 2168-75
Date: 11/2010
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Tagged keywords: California, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Changes in Idaho Primary Care Physician Clinical Work Hours, 1996-2009
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Reports on work hours of primary care physicians in Idaho for 1996-2009. Includes data by specialty and for both rural health clinics and community health centers. Identifies a decrease in clinical hours worked and an increase in patient wait times.
Author: Wilper AP, Weppner WG
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 304(13), 1443-5
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Care Access, Idaho, Physicians, Primary Care
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Clinical Recruitment and Retention Toolkit
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Provides a toolkit to help community health centers recruit and retain primary care providers. Adapted from "Recruitment & Retention of Clinicians."
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, National, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Collaborative Models of Primary Care: Case Studies in Colorado Innovation
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Presents case studies of primary care clinics that employ or are run by physician assistants (PAs), nurse practitioners (NPs) or certified nurse midwives (CNMs), also known as non-physician primary care clinicians (NPCC).
Organization: Colorado Health Institute
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, Colorado, Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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Finding, Recruiting, and Sustaining the Future Primary Care Physician Workforce: A New Theoretical Model of Specialty Choice Process
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Link: Abstract
Reviews the literature on how students choose a specialty and factors that influence that choice. Introduces a model for aiding efforts that encourage students to choose a career in primary care. Identifies areas for further research.
Author: Bennett KL, Phillips JP
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(10 Suppl), S81-8
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Impact of National Health Care Reform on California's Health Care Workforce
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Discusses the challenges of the health care workforce in California including lack of educational capacity, shortages of health professionals, constraining scope of practice laws, and more. Highlights how the Affordable Care Act will impact these challenges. Includes recommendations for state decision-makers on how to address these challenges.
Author: Coffman J, Ojeda G
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: California, Diversity, Education and Training, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Medicare and Medicaid, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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Improving Clinical Access and Continuity through Physician Panel Redesign
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Describes a method of optimizing physician patient panels in order to increase the effective capacity of physicians as one way to address the primary care shortage.
Author: Balasubramanian H, Banerjee R, Denton B, Naessens J, Stahl J
Location: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(10), 1109-15
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Minnesota, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Interprofessional Collaboration in Family Health Teams: An Ontario-Based Study
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Examines the views and experiences of family health team (FHT) members regarding interprofessional collaboration. Identifies challenges to implementing team-based primary care and its benefits.
Author: Goldman J, Meuser J, Rogers J, Lawrie L, Reeves S
Location: Canadian Family Physician, 56(10), e368-74
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, International, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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Low-Cost Lessons from Grand Junction, Colorado
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Highlights a family physician-led practice model in Colorado that helps keep costs low. Identifies seven features that other health care systems could replicate.
Author: Bodenheimer T
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 363(15), 1391-3
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Colorado, Family Medicine Physicians, Primary Care
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Massachusetts Physician Workforce Study
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Reports on the results of the ninth annual survey of physicians in Massachusetts. Discusses national and state shortages by specialty. Covers turnover rates, the use of international medical graduates, the impact of professional liability fees, appointment wait times, views of health reform options, and more.
Organization: Massachusetts Medical Society
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Surgeons, Health Care Access, International Medical Graduates, Malpractice Insurance, Massachusetts, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand
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Medical Student Debt and Primary Care Specialty Intentions
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Examines the relationship between medical student debt and primary care specialty choice. Addresses the impact of family income and race/ethnicity.
Author: Phillips JP, Weismantel DP, Gold KJ, Schwenk TL
Location: Family Medicine, 42(9), 616-22
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load
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Mental Health Care Services in Primary Care: Tackling the Issues in the Context of Health Care Reform
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Addresses mental health care issues and the role of primary care providers in delivering mental health care services. Highlights relevant provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Organization: Center for American Progress
Author: Russell L
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Health Reform, National, Primary Care
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Physician Wages Across Specialties: Informing the Physician Reimbursement Debate
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Link: Abstract
Compares physician compensation by specialty using earnings-per-hour. Concludes that wages vary widely across specialties and were the lowest for primary care specialties.
Author: Leigh JP, Tancredi D, Jerant A, Kravitz RL
Location: Archives of Internal Medicine, 170(19), 1728-34
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Retainer-Based Physicians: Characteristics, Impact, and Policy Considerations
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Examines the characteristics of physicians who offer concierge medicine, their patients, the impact on Medicare beneficiaries and relevant policies. Addresses access to and quality of care. Identifies why primary care physicians may choose this practice model.
Organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Site Visits to Selected Institutions with Innovations in Residency Training
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Highlights several internal medicine and family medicine residency training programs' innovations and challenges. Covers ambulatory training, the Patient-Centered Medical Home, multidisciplinary teams, primary care career choice, and more.
Organizations: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Rand Corporation
Author: Cordasco KM, Wynn BO
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, California, Care Coordination, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Specialty Choice, Wisconsin
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US Pharmacists' Effect as Team Members on Patient Care: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses
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Link: Abstract
Reviews the literature on the outcomes of pharmacists providing direct patient care. Supports including pharmacists as part of the primary care team.
Author: Chisholm-Burns MA, Lee JK, Spivey CA, Slack M, Herrier RN, Hall-Lipsy E, Graff Zivin J, Abraham I, Palmer J, Martin JR, Kramer SS, Wunz T
Location: Medical Care, 48(10), 923-33
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, National, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Primary Care
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Where Have All the General Internists Gone?
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Addresses the impact of general internists leaving internal medicine on the shortage of primary care physicians. Reports on a sample survey of internists regarding career satisfaction and mid-career attrition in internal medicine.
Author: Bylsma WH, Arnold GK, Fortna GS, Lipner RS
Location: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(10), 1020-3
Date: 10/2010
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Tagged keywords: General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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2009 Geographic Access Data System: Selected Healthcare Professionals in New Mexico
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Provides information and data on education, supply trends, geographic distribution, and demographics for New Mexico health care providers.
Organization: New Mexico Health Policy Commission
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Chiropractors, Dental Assistants, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Diversity, Education and Training, Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Midwives, New Mexico, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Pharmacy Technicians and Aides, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Call to Action: Expansion of Pharmacy Primary Care Services in a Reformed Health System
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Supports including pharmacists as part of the primary care team to improve access to primary care services and patient safety. Offers recommendations.
Organization: American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Author: Argus Commission
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Community Health Center Expansion, Primary Care Shortages, and Solutions in an Era of Specialists
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Presents a discussion with Thomas Curtin, Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer of Clinical Affairs for the National Association of Community Health Centers.
Organization: Health Workforce Information Center
Author: Trude L
Location: Health Workforce News
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Economic Loss to Community from Primary Care Practitioner Shortage
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Examines the economic impact of the primary care shortage in Noble County, Oklahoma. Analyzes the demand for additional primary care practitioners. Provides suggestions to aid recruitment and retention.
Organization: National Center for Rural Health Works
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Oklahoma, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The Effect of Local Primary Care Physician Supply on the Utilization of Preventive Health Services in the United States
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Link: Abstract
Reports on a survey of upstate New York regarding local physician supply, the likelihood of having a primary care physician, and preventative health care use.
Author: Continelli T, McGinnis S, Holmes T
Location: Health & Place, 16(5), 942-51
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, New York, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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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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Ohio Primary Care Workforce Data Compendium
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Provides detailed information on Ohio's primary care workforce from a variety of data sources. Addresses physicians, physician assistants, and advanced practice registered nurses. Includes physician distribution by county and primary care specialty.
Organization: Ohio Primary Care and Rural Health Programs
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Ohio, Osteopathic Physicians, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Out of Whack: Pricing Distortions in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
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Reviews how Medicare determines physician fees, highlights the problems with the current fee-for-service system, and offers ideas for correcting those problems.
Organization: Urban Institute
Author: Berenson RA
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Physician Facts and Trends: Virginia & US 2008
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Provides a fact sheet with data on Virginia's physician workforce. Covers clinical specialty, salaries, productivity, location of medical school/residency, supply and demand, age, demographics, and shortage areas.
Organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions Healthcare Workforce Data Center
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Virginia
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Physician Forecasting in Virginia 2008-2030
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Estimates the physician supply and demand for Virginia through 2030 using a model developed by the Lewin Group. Includes projections for primary care, medical specialties, surgery, and total patient care physicians. Discusses the basic differences between the HRSA, AAMC, and VPSDM physician forecasting models.
Organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions Healthcare Workforce Data Center
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand, Virginia
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Regional and Racial Variation in Primary Care and the Quality of Care among Medicare Beneficiaries
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Examines the relationship between access to primary care and health care outcomes. Concludes that increasing the supply of primary care physicians alone will not result in better outcomes.
Organization: The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Author: Goodman DC, Brownlee S, Chang C, Fisher ES
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Relationship Between Patient Panel Characteristics and Primary Care Physician Clinical Performance Rankings
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Concludes that physician clinical performance rankings may penalize physicians for taking care of more vulnerable patients. Addresses how this could reduce the number of physicians working in community health centers and other safety-net sites.
Author: Hong CS, Atlas SJ, Chang Y, Subramanian SV, Ashburner JM, Barry MJ, Grant RW
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 304(10), 1107-13
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Massachusetts, Physicians, Primary Care
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Team Huddles: The Role of the Primary Care Educator
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Link: Abstract
Discusses the role of team huddles in out-patient care and offers teaching strategies to help learners adopt this communication strategy. Supports using the team huddle to improve teamwork and clinical care.
Author: Fogarty CT, Schultz S
Location: Clinical Educator, 7(3), 157-60
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Education and Training, National, Primary Care
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Where Americans Get Acute Care: Increasingly, It’s Not At Their Doctor’s Office
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Link: Abstract
Analyzes access to acute care using emergency department visits as an indicator. Discusses how primary care access issues are contributing to the rise in emergency department use and whether health reform provisions will help.
Date: 9/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, National, Primary Care
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Characteristics of New Physicians in Texas: 2000-2009
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Reports results from a survey of direct patient care physicians new to Texas between 2000 and 2009. Covers supply, demographics, location of education, birthplace, specialty, rural practice and more.
Organizations: National Center for Health Statistics, Texas Department of State Health Services, Texas Health Professions Resource Center, Texas Statewide Health Coordinating Council
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Education and Training, Immigration, International Medical Graduates, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Texas
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Community Health Centers Lead the Primary Care Revolution
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Identifies primary care services provided by community health centers. Describes primary care health center initiatives in the Affordable Care Act. Details how health centers contribute to the economy by state.
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Reform, National, Primary Care
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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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Educating Health Professionals Collaboratively for Team-Based Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Supports collaborative training models for students going into various health care professions so they are prepared to work as teams upon graduation. Identifies principles for interdisciplinary training and policy actions that could support it.
Author: Schuetz B, Mann E, Everett W
Location: Health Affairs, 29(8), 1476-80
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Policy, Primary Care
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The Future of Family Medicine and Implications for Rural Primary Care Physician Supply
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Examines the rural primary care physician shortage, the effect of recent trends in specialty choice on provider supply, and major trends that are changing the dynamics of rural health care delivery. It concludes with a discussion of how private efforts and federal and state policy options can help ensure high-quality health care in rural America.
Organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Author: Rosenblatt R, Chen F, Lishner D, Doescher M
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Health Centers’ Contributions to Training Tomorrow’s Physicians: Case Studies of FQHC-Based Residency Programs and Policy Recommendations for the Implementation of the Teaching Health Centers Program
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Describes how four health centers created and sustained physician residency programs. Identifies challenges, benefits, and the impact of the Affordable Care Act. Concludes that community health center-run residency programs help successfully recruit family medicine physicians into communities.
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Author: Knight K, Miller C, Talley R, Yastic M, McColgan K, Proser M, Walter S
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Family Medicine Physicians, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Reform, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Texas, Washington
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Health Reform, Primary Care, and Graduate Medical Education
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Discusses the shortage of primary care providers, how health reform will challenge access to health care, and issues related to graduate medical education.
Author: Inglehart JK
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 363(6), 584-90
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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The Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative: Implications for Rural Physicians
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Additional Link: Policy Brief
Reports on the impact of rurality on primary care physicians' participation in the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, which offered physicians incentive payments for reporting on certain quality measures.
Organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
Author: Infante A, Meit M, Hargrave E
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Quality, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Rural
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Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in the United States: Current Patterns of Distribution and Recent Trends
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Presents county-level data on changes in the primary care workforce over the past two decades. Highlights the growth of nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Includes national maps of the makeup of the primary care workforce.
Author: Stange K, Sampson D
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, State-by-State, Supply and Demand
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The Primary Care Nurse Practitioner and Cancer Survivorship Care
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Link: Abstract
Reviews the literature on the role of nurse practitioners in providing care continuity for cancer survivors. Highlights collaborative care and nurse-managed health center models.
Author: Cooper JM, Loeb SJ, Smith CA
Location: Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Primary Care
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Quality and Safety of Screening Colonoscopies Performed by Primary Care Physicians With Standby Specialist Support
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Link: Abstract
Concludes that colonoscopies performed by primary care physicians with training and backup assistance are comparable to those performed by gastroenterologists from a study conducted by the South Carolina Medical Endoscopy Center. Highlights how primary care physicians can address the colonoscopy screening gap, partly due to a shortage of endoscopy specialists.
Author: Xirasagar S, Hurley TG, Sros L, Hebert JR
Location: Medical Care, 48(8), 703-709
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, Physicians, Primary Care, South Carolina
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Report on Distribution of Health Professions Education Programs in Georgia
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Discusses existing and looming shortages in the Georgia health workforce. Includes extensive data, maps, lists, and tables.
Organizations: Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, Center for Health Workforce Planning and Analysis
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Allied Health, Behavioral Health, Chiropractors, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Dental Occupations, Dietitians and Nutritionists, Education and Training, Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Georgia, Health Informaticians, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Aides, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Pharmacy Technicians and Aides, Physicians, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Public Health, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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Sharing Resources to Improve Care
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Offers a ten-minute podcast on how primary care practices are sharing technical and clinical services to provide 24-hour coordinated care and become certified as medical homes. Related to the article "How Physician Practices Could Share Personnel And Resources To Support Medical Homes."
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Hausman S
Date: 8/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Clinics, National, Primary Care
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AAMC Summaries of DGME and IME Sections of the Health Reform Bill and CMS Proposed Rules Implementing These Provisions
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Summarizes the sections of the health care reform legislation related to graduate medical education and includes the relevant health reform law text. Discusses the proposed CMS regulations.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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CareOregon: Transforming the Role of a Medicaid Health Plan from Payer to Partner
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Describes a Medicaid health plan that partners with health care providers to improve primary care delivery. Supports care coordination and teams. Offers examples of innovations, such as a nurse-focused medical home model.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Klein S, McCarthy D
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Medicare and Medicaid, Oregon, Primary Care
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The Case for Primary Care: A Medical Student's Perspective
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Link: Extract
Offers a perspective on why less students are choosing to go into primary care and how primary care can become more popular.
Author: Ganguli I
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 363(3), 207-9
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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The Family Medicine Match: Bull Market or Dead Cat Bounce?
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Discusses trends in student interest in primary care residencies, with a focus on family medicine. Concludes that much more needs to be done to produce enough primary care physicians.
Author: Gravel J, Hall KL, Abercrombie S, Carr S, Hoekzema G, Kozakowksi S, Lindsay D, Mazzone MF, Shaffer TD, Wieshhaus M
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 8(4), 373-4
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Improving Access to Primary Care: The Growing Role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
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Highlights Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) who provide primary care, take health histories, provide complete physical exams, diagnose and treat many common acute and chronic problems, interpret lab results and other diagnostic tests, prescribe medications, and teach and counsel patients and their families about health and illness.
Organizations: AARP, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Midwives, National, Nurse Practitioners, Primary Care, Registered Nurses
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Increases in Primary Care Physician Income due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 – Continued Tweaking of Physician Payment
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Identifies how the Affordable Care Act increased Medicare payments for primary care physicians and discusses the possible impact on primary care and rural physician shortages. Offers a model to calculate the effect of these changes and details projected revenue changes by Medicare locality.
Organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Author: MacKinney AC
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Loss of Primary Care Residency Positions Amidst Growth in Other Specialties
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Highlights the shortage of primary care physicians, the loss of primary care residency positions in the past decade, and the need for graduate medical education to meet the nation's health care needs.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Weida NA, Phillips RL Jr, Bazemore AW, Dodoo MS, Petterson SM, Xierali I, Teevan B
Location: American Family Physician, 82(2), 121
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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Meeting the Challenges of Training More Medical Students: Lessons from Flinders University's Distributed Medical Education Program
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Link: Abstract
Reports on focus groups of medical students who participated in a clinical curriculum in rural general practice. Concludes that this approach to clinical training supports primary care, expands clinical training sites, and encourages graduates to practice in underserved areas.
Author: Couper ID, Worley PS
Location: Medical Journal of Australia, 193(1), 34-6
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, International, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Models for Improving Medicaid Primary Care: Lessons for Health Reform
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Offers a webinar recording on opportunities for Medicaid to improve primary care. Describes strategies from two states.
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Oklahoma, Primary Care, Vermont
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A National View of Rural Health Workforce Issues in the USA
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Studies whether rural hospital chief executive officers (CEOs) in the USA report shortages of health professions. Discusses perceptions about factors influencing recruitment and retention.
Author: MacDowell M, Glasser M, Fitts M, Nielsen K, Hunsaker M
Location: Rural and Remote Health, 10, 1531
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Allied Health, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Surgeons, Hospitals, National, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatrists, Recruitment and Retention, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Nurses in Advanced Roles: A Description and Evaluation of Experiences in 12 Developed Countries
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Examines the development of the advanced practice nursing occupation in 12 countries, including the United States. Highlights their role in primary care. Discusses education and training requirements and the impact on health care access and quality. Includes data on supply for nurses and physicians.
Organization: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Author: Delamaire M, Lafortune G
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Clinical Nurse Specialists, Education and Training, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, International, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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Practice-Based Population Health: Information Technology to Support Transformation to Proactive Primary Care
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Discusses the concept of Practice-Based Population Health (PBPH) and its focus on the transformation of primary care in both improvement of health care and the debate on national health care reform.
Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Author: Cusack C, Knudson A, Kronstadt J, Singer R, Brown A
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Health Reform, National, Primary Care
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QuadMed: Transforming Employer-Sponsored Health Care Through Workplace Primary Care and Wellness Programs
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Describes a worksite health clinic primary care model that features longer patient visits, wellness programs, and coordinated care. Identifies the provider mix used.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: McCarthy D, Klein S
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Clinics, Primary Care, Wisconsin
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Rural Health Advisory Committee’s Report on Telemental Health in Rural Minnesota
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Discusses access to mental health services in Minnesota through the use of telehealth. Focuses on the telemental health workforce; financial, legal, and infrastructure issues; and case studies of current telemental use and experiences in rural Minnesota.
Organization: Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Health Care Access, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Minnesota, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Rural, Social Workers
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SustiNet Healthcare Workforce Task Force: Final Report
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Discusses Connecticut's health workforce strengths and challenges. Offers recommendations to help address the impact of health reform and about what a statewide strategic plan should include.
Author: SustiNet Healthcare Workforce Task Force
Date: 7/2010
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Tagged keywords: Connecticut, Health Reform, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Academic Retainer Medicine: An Innovative Business Model for Cross-Subsidizing Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Examines a model that incorporates a retainer-medicine primary care practice in an academic medical center. Addresses how the model can improve provider satisfaction with primary care and care quality.
Author: Lucier DJ, Frisch NB, Cohen BJ, Wagner M, Salem D, Fairchild DG
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(6), 959-964
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Best Practices and Model Programs, Massachusetts, Physicians, Primary Care
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Aligning Incentives in Medicare
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Additional Link: Testimony to Congress
Identifies how changing Medicare payments could transform graduate medical education through supporting care coordination, primary care, and more. Discusses the restrictions Medicare faces in its ability to change payment policies.
Organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Interprofessional Training and Education, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Could New Programs Eliminate Debt for Tomorrow’s Osteopathic Primary Care Physicians?
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Provides a perspective on the impact of medical education debt on the number of medical graduates going into primary care. Highlights legislation establishing or expanding programs that address this issue.
Organization: American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
Author: Shannon SC
Location: Inside OME, 4(6)
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load
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Developing the Rural Primary Care Workforce in Hawaii -- A 10-Point Plan
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Describes current and new initiatives and a ten point plan for an improved state rural training pipeline to address physician shortages in Hawaii. Highlights the impact of a rural family medicine residency program.
Author: Hixon AL, Buenconsejo-Lum LE
Location: Hawaii Medical Journal, 69(6 Suppl), 53-55
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, Hawaii, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Rural, Supply and Demand
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General Practitioner Workforce Planning: Assessment of Four Policy Directions
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Examines Ireland as a case study for modeling the impact of several possible interventions for addressing shortages of general practitioners. Compares increasing training positions, recruiting more physicians from other countries, encouraging later retirement, and using more nurses.
Author: Teljeur C, Thomas S, O'Kelly FD, O'Dowd T
Location: BMC Health Services Research, 10, 148
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: International, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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A Guide to Building Collaborative Mental Health Care Partnerships in Pediatric Primary Care
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Outlines the components of partnerships between child and adolescent psychiatrists and primary care clinicians. Identifies steps to creating an effective collaborative mental health care partnership.
Organization: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists
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Health Care Reform and Primary Care: The Growing Importance of the Community Health Center
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Discusses the network and importance of community health centers in the United States.
Author: Eli A, Geiger J, Fine M
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 362(22), 2047-2050
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Health Reform, National, Primary Care
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The Impact of Health Care Reform on the Future Supply and Demand for Physicians Updated Projections through 2025
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Additional Link: Press Release: Physician Shortages to Worsen Without Increases in Residency Training
Updates "The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections Through 2025" to acknowledge the impact health care reform will have on the supply and demand of physicians. Includes projections for primary care physicians.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Integrating Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment in the Patient-Centered Medical Home
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Identifies the conceptual similarities in and differences between the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and strategies used to deliver mental health treatment in primary care.
Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Author: Croghan T, Brown J
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, National, Primary Care
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Medical Home Capabilities of Primary Care Practices That Serve Sociodemographically Vulnerable Neighborhoods
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Link: Abstract
Reports on a survey of primary care practices in Massachusetts to determine whether incentives related to medical home elements would increase disparities for practices serving poorer populations.
Author: Friedberg MW, Coltin KL, Safran DG, Dresser M, Schneider EC
Location: Archives of Internal Medicine, 170(11), 938-44
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Massachusetts, Policy, Primary Care
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Medicare/Medicaid Acceptance Trends among Physicians
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Reports on a survey of the percent of private practice physicians accepting new Medicare and Medicaid patients. Identifies specialty type associated with acceptance of Medicaid and Medicare.
Author: AmeriMed Consulting
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Promise and Peril for Primary Care
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Offers a perspective on the potential the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 has to reestablish primary care as the foundation of America's health system.
Author: Goodson JD
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 152(11), 742-4
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Primary Care Physician Supply and Children's Health Care Use, Access, and Outcomes: Findings From Canada
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Examines the impact of local primary care physician supply in Ontario, where children have universal insurance coverage. Identifies a higher rate of missed recommended visits, emergency department use, and hospitalizations for areas with lower supply.
Author: Guttmann A, Shipman SA, Lam K, Goodman DC, Stukel TA
Location: Pediatrics, 125(6), 1119-26
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, International, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care Specialty Choices of United States Medical Graduates, 1997-2006
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Describes trends in specialty choice and identifies what makes allopathic medical school graduates more likely to choose primary care.
Author: Jeffe DB, Whelan AJ, Andriole DA
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(6), 947-58
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Public Health, Workforce, Quality, and Related Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
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Outlines each of the provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) related to public health, health care quality, and the health workforce. Discusses the implications of these provisions for health policy.
Organization: Congressional Research Service
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Allied Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Dental Occupations, Diversity, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Financial Aid, Geriatrics, Health Care Quality, Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health
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The Road to Efficiency? Re-examining the Impact of the Primary Care Physician Workforce on Health Care Utilization Rates
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Link: Abstract
Analyzes the relationship between the supply of primary care physicians and health care utilization rates. Compares use at the county and metropolitan statistical area level.
Author: Wright DB, Ricketts TC 3rd
Location: Social Science & Medicine, 70(12), 2006-10
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The Social Mission of American Medical Schools
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Discusses the findings of "The Social Mission of Medical Education: Ranking the Schools" in a radio show. Includes a guest from a physician organization, a medical center, a highly ranked school, and one of the study's authors. Provides a transcript.
Author: Nnamdi K
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Social Mission of Medical Education: Ranking the Schools
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Discusses the percentage of graduates who practice primary care, work in health professional shortage areas, and are underrepresented minorities. Highlights a study involving the development of a metric called the social mission score to evaluate medical school output.
Author: Mullan F, Chen C, Petterson S, Kolsky G, Spagnola M
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 152(12), 804-811
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Strengthening Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Expansion of Community Health Centers Through Health Reform
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Examines the impact of the new health reform law on the number of patients who will receive primary care services at community health centers and the effect of the service expansions on overall health care costs. Summarizes the implications for primary care demand.
Organization: George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Author: Ku L, Richard P, Dor A, Tan E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Reform, National, Primary Care
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A Summary of the December 2009 Forum on the Future of Nursing: Care in the Community
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Highlights the second of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative’s three forums, which was held on December 3, 2009. Examines care in the community. Focuses on community health, public health, primary care, and long-term care.
Organizations: Institute of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Community Health Workers, National, Nursing Occupations, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health, Registered Nurses
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US Approaches to Physician Payment: The Deconstruction of Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Examines primary care payment models, discusses why former approaches did not adequately support primary care, and addresses how new models support the medical home.
Organizations: Mathematica Policy Research, Urban Institute
Author: Berenson RA, Rich EC
Location: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(6), 613-8
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Utah's Physician Assistant Workforce, 2010: An Assessment of the Current Capacity, Emerging Trends, and Projected Demand of Utah’s PA Workforce through 2025
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Assesses the current capacity, emerging trends, and projected demand of Utah's Physician Assistant workforce through 2025. Includes extensive data. Provides the survey instrument used.
Organization: Utah Medical Education Council
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Diversity, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Rural, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues, Utah
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Who Will Care for the Underserved? The Role of Off-Shore Medical Schools
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Offers a perspective on how off-shore medical schools help prepare students from diverse backgrounds to work in underserved communities and what medical schools in the US can learn from them.
Author: Freeman J
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, International, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Workforce Pipeline
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Workflow Redesign: A Model for California Clinics
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Reports on the implementation of "Optimizing Primary Care Collaborative" (OPCC), a project which offers strategies to increase medical practice efficiency and capacity.
Organization: California Healthcare Foundation
Date: 6/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, California, Clinics, Health Care Access, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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2010 Physician Workforce Conference Presentations
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Provides presentations from the Sixth Annual AAMC Physician Workforce Research Conference held in Alexandria, Virginia May 6-7, 2010. Covers primary care, supply and demand research, non-physician clinicians, interdisciplinary training, and more.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Geriatrics, Interprofessional Training and Education, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Oregon, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Residency Programs, Rural, Supply and Demand, Utah
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The 2010 Report to the Secretary: Rural Health and Human Services Issues
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Examines three key topics in health and human services and their effects in rural areas: home and community based care for rural seniors, rural primary care workforce, and rural health care provider integration.
Organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Geriatrics, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, National, Policy, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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A 21st Century Roadmap for Advancing America's Health: The Path from Peril to Progress
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Discusses some of the challenges related to implementing health reform and offers recommendations. Covers team-based medicine, primary care, comparative effectiveness research, value-based payment methods, public health, research, global health, and health information technology.
Organization: Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
Author: Commission on U.S. Federal Leadership in Health and Medicine: Charting Future Directions
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Health Reform, National, Policy, Primary Care
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Can We Close the Income and Wealth Gap between Specialists and Primary Care Physicians?
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Link: Abstract
Presents the results of a study that determined the amount of money medical specialists accumulate over their careers is twice as high as that of primary care physicians.
Author: Vaughn B, DeVrieze S, Reed S, Schulman K
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 933-940
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Challenges of Primary Care and Innovative Responses in Osteopathic Education
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Link: Abstract
Highlights osteopaths tendency to go into primary care, trends away from primary care, and model programs intended to increase interest in primary care.
Author: Shannon SC, Ferretti SM, Wood D, Levitan T
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 1015-22
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Coaching’s the Thing for Primary Care Practice
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Discusses challenges facing primary care, the medical home, and primary care coaches, who help physicians transform their practices into medical homes.
Organization: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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Connecticut 2009 Primary Care Survey: Physician Satisfaction, Physician Supply and Patient Access to Medical Care
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Reports on a survey of primary care physicians in Connecticut. Covers career satisfaction by primary care specialty for a number of factors, including malpractice environment, and access to care.
Organization: Connecticut State Medical Society
Author: Aseltine RH Jr, Katz MC, Geragosian AH
Location: Connecticut Medicine, 74(5), 281-91
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Connecticut, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Health Care Access, Malpractice Insurance, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Connecting the Public Health and Clinical Workforce
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Discusses the challenges and opportunities for integrating the primary care and public health workforce, what the Health Resources and Services Administration is doing, and more in a 20 minute talk given by Kim Willard-Jelks, MD, USPHS at the ASTHO 2010 State Public Health Workforce Summit.
Organization: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Primary Care, Public Health
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Fixing Medicare’s Physician Payment System
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Offers a viewpoint and discussion of issues related to the current Medicare physician payment system and offers recommendation to strengthen primary care.
Author: Vladeck BC
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 362(21), 1955-7
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Group Health’s Move To The Medical Home: For Doctors, It’s Often A Hard Journey
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Link: Extract
Describes a medical home model and its implementation. Addresses some of the workforce challenges faced in implementing the model and how roles have changed. Highlights how the model improves health care quality, supports primary care, and has improved physician recruitment.
Author: Meyer H
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 844-51
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, Idaho, Physicians, Primary Care, Washington
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Lessons from Major Initiatives to Improve Primary Care in the United Kingdom
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Links: Abstract, Highlights
Outlines the primary care system in the United Kingdom and reforms it has undertaken.
Author: Doran T, Roland M
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 1023-9
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: International, Primary Care
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Louisiana's Vision for Access to Primary Care in the New Orleans Region
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Addresses the need for additional funding to support primary care access in the New Orleans area. Supports using a Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Waiver to allow the region to build on the patient-centered medical home.
Organization: Louisiana Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Access, Louisiana, Medicare and Medicaid, Policy, Primary Care
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Managing the New Primary Care: The New Skills that Will Be Needed
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Link: Abstract
Supports leadership training for physicians in primary care practices in order to prepare them to lead new models of primary care.
Author: Bohmer RM
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 1010-4
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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The National Health Service Corps – A Critical Component of Provider Recruitment in North Carolina’s Rural and Underserved Communities
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Stresses the importance of utilizing the National Health Service Corp to recruit primary care providers in rural and other shortage areas.
Author: Price J
Location: North Carolina Medical Journal, 71(3), 251-253
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: North Carolina, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural
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Overview of Discretionary Programs in Health Care Reform
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Reviews provisions in the health reform law related to disparities, public health, HRSA's Title VII education and training programs, medical education debt, and other workforce initiatives in slides from a teleconference presentation.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Author: Rasouli T, Shick M
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Area Health Education Centers, Community Health Workers, Continuing Education, Education and Training, Geriatrics, Health Care Access, Health Reform, National, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health, Shortage Designations, Student Debt Load
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Primary Care: A Critical Review of the Evidence on Quality and Costs Of Health Care
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Link: Abstract
Reviews definitions of primary care and the evidence linking each definition to health care quality, costs, and outcomes.
Organization: Rand Corporation
Author: Friedberg MW, Hussey PS, Schneider EC
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 766-72
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, National, Primary Care
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Primary Care: Current Problems and Proposed Solutions
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Link: Abstract
Identifies features of primary care and current challenges it faces such as maldistribution. Summarizes strategies for improving access to primary care.
Author: Bodenheimer T, Pham HH
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 799-805
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Prospects For Rebuilding Primary Care Using The Patient-Centered Medical Home
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Link: Abstract
Examines barriers to implementing the medical home such as new payment models, infrastructure requirements, and more.
Author: Landon BE, Gill JM, Antonelli RC, Rich EC
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 827-34
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, National, Primary Care
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Reinventing Primary Care: Lessons from Canada for the United States
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Compares American and Canadian health care systems. Offers suggestions on what the US can learn from Canada, including ideas for how to strengthen its primary care infrastructure.
Author: Starfield B
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 1030-6
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: International, National, Policy, Primary Care
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The Role of Nurse Practitioners in Reinventing Primary Care
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Reviews the literature on the role of nurse practitioners in primary care settings. Offers policy recommendations to promote the more effective use of the NP workforce.
Author: Naylor MD, Kurtzman ET
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 893-9
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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The Social Mission of Medical Schools in a Time of Expansion: The United States Experience
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Identifies medical school expansion as an opportunity to address maldistribution, primary care shortages, and workforce diversity. Reviews how schools, states, and the federal government are supporting these social mission initiatives. From a series of papers presented at the 12th International Medical Workforce Collaborative.
Author: Chen C
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Diversity, Education and Training, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Summary of PPACA Provisions Related to HRSA’s Health Professions Programs and Other PHSA Workforce Programs
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Identifies provisions in the health care reform law related to Title VII and several other workforce relevant Public Health Service Act programs.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Health Reform, Interprofessional Training and Education, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health
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A Tale of Two Systems: A Look at State Efforts to Integrate Primary Care and Behavioral Health in Safety Net Settings
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Describes how two states approached the integration of community health centers and community mental health centers and offers lessons for other states. Discusses workforce issues such as a lack of interdisciplinary education.
Organization: National Academy for State Health Policy
Author: Takach M, Purington K, Osius E
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Missouri, Primary Care, Tennessee
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Transforming Primary Care: From Past Practice to the Practice of the Future
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Link: Abstract
Identifies five building blocks for primary care transformation and discusses the importance of each and how they might be implemented.
Author: Margolius D, Bodenheimer T
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 779-84
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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The Unsustainable Cost of Undergraduate Medical Education: An Overlooked Element of U.S. Health Care Reform
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Discusses the cost of medical education, student debt, its impact on student diversity and primary care, and possible solutions.
Author: Adashi EY, Gruppuso PA
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(5), 763-5
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Education and Training, Financial Aid, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Student Debt Load
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The Urgency of Preparing Primary Care Physicians to Care for Older People with Chronic Illnesses
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Link: Abstract
Highlights the importance of training physicians in geriatrics and identifies policy options for promoting geriatric chronic care competency. Discusses the adequacy of the geriatrics workforce.
Author: Boult C, Counsell SR, Leipzig RM, Berenson RA
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 811-8
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Geriatrics, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Working Together - Team-Based Models of Primary Medical Care: What’s Working in Complex Care Management?
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Provides team-based models of primary care from four countries: Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Discusses policy levers and research priorities. From a series of papers presented at the 12th International Medical Workforce Collaborative.
Author: Naccarella L, Nasmith L, Michener L, et al
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, International, National, Policy, Primary Care
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122nd Meeting of the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice: April 22-23, 2010
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Provides a summary of committee meeting minutes. Discusses program he the role of nursing in primary care and implications for workforce. Covers recommendations for and impacts of recent legislation on nursing education and the workforce.
Organization: National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Midwives, National, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Public Health
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AAMC Summary of Teaching Health Center Sections of the Health Reform Law
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Summarizes the sections of the health reform legislation related to teaching health centers, which intend to increase the primary care workforce supply.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Minutes of Meeting - April 22, 2010
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Summarizes discussions concerning the Council on Graduate Medical Education's 20th annual report, recommendations for the committee's 9th report, and Title VII. Supports creating a separate dental advisory committee.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, National, Policy, Primary Care
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An Analysis of the Demand for Primary Care Physicians and Specialty Physicians for St. James Parish, Louisiana
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Examines the demand for primary care and specialty physicians in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Focuses on area populations and office visits for primary care demand. Uses average baseline population data from the literature to estimate specialty demand.
Organization: National Center for Rural Health Works
Author: Hartman PS, St. Clair CF, Doeksen GA
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: General Surgeons, Louisiana, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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Attributes Affecting the Medical School Primary Care Experience
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Link: Abstract
Examines medical school attributes to determine which may affect students' primary care experiences and thus make them more likely to choose primary care.
Author: Jerant A, Srinivasan M, Bertakis KD, Azari R, Pan RJ, Kravitz RL
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(4), 605-13
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) Minutes of Meeting – April 22-23, 2010
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Provides committee meeting minutes regarding the 20th annual report on graduate medical education (GME). Identifies report recommendations addressing primary care physicians, physician income, medical education accountability, GME, and workforce distribution.
Organization: Council on Graduate Medical Education
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Easing the Adoption and Use of Electronic Health Records in Small Practices
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Links: Abstract, Highlights
Describes how programs like the Regional Health Information Technology Extension Centers can help small clinics implement electronic medical records. Identifies lessons learned by existing programs and highlights challenges.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Torda P, Han ES, Scholle SH
Location: Health Affairs, 29(4), 668-75
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, Health Information and Informatics Occupations, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Efforts to Graduate More Primary Care Physicians and Physicians Who Will Practice in Rural Areas: Examining Outcomes From the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the Rural Physician Associate Program
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Additional Link: Abstract
Compares the specialty choice and practice locations of students who graduated from the University of Minnesota. Concludes that UMN-Duluth and Rural Physician Associate Program students were more likely to choose primary care and work in a rural area.
Author: Zink T, Center B, Finstad D, Boulger JG, Repesh LA, Westra R, Christensen R, Brooks KD
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(4), 599-604
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, Minnesota, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Specialty Choice
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Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Health Reform, Implementation, and Post-Reform Priorities
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Reports on a survey of health care leaders to determine their views on issues related to health care reform. Includes the percent concerned about a primary care shortage and in favor of payment and malpractice reform.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, Malpractice Insurance, National, Primary Care
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Health Care Reform and the Health Workforce: Workforce Provisions Included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148 (HR 3590)
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Summarizes provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 related to the health workforce.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Reform, National, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Health Policy: Health Care Workforce Issues
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Discusses challenges in meeting the demand for health care providers in Texas. Presents data and demographics. Includes maps of state shortage areas.
Organization: Texas Department of State Health Services
Author: Gunn BA
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Dental Hygienists, Dentists, Diversity, General Surgeons, Home Health Aides and Home Care Aides, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Marriage and Family Therapists, Mental Health Counselors, Occupational Therapy Occupations, Pharmacists, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychiatric Aides, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Public Health, Registered Nurses, Rural, Shortage Designations, Social Workers, Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors, Supply and Demand, Texas
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New York Physician Supply and Demand through 2030
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Includes supply and demand forecasts for New York physicians by specialty and region. Provides various scenarios.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, New York, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Supply and Demand
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The Patient-Centered Medical Home Movement
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Link: Extract
Offers a viewpoint on how medical homes can be effective primary care models and the challenges faced in creating such a model.
Author: Larson EB, Reid R
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 303(16), 1644-5
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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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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Profile of Pediatric Visits
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Provides information on office visits by infants, children, and young adults. Addresses whether they go to a general pediatrician, pediatric subspecialist, other primary care physician, or other specialist. Covers source of payment, type of office setting, and regional variations.
Organization: American Academy of Pediatrics
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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What's Keeping Us So Busy in Primary Care? A Snapshot from One Practice
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Link: Extract
Examines a primary care practice using an electronic health record to document the amount of time physicians spend on various activities. Highlights the need for changes in practice design and payment structure.
Author: Baron RJ
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 363(17), 1632-6
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Who Will Provide Primary Care and How Will They Be Trained?
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Additional Link: Co-Chairs’ Summary
Includes the proceedings of a January 2010 conference that addressed the preparation of primary care providers. Participants developed the set of conclusions and recommendations found in this Executive Summary.
Organization: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
Author: Cronenwett L, Dzau V
Date: 4/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Primary Care
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2009 New York Residency Training Outcomes: A Summary of Responses to the 2009 New York Resident Exit Survey
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Reports on an exit survey of physicians completing residency and fellowship programs in New York by specialty. Covers demand, demographics, student debt, in-state retention, international medical graduates, subspecialization, and more.
Organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies - SUNY Albany
Author: Armstrong DP and Forte GJ
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Geriatrics, International Medical Graduates, New York, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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2010 Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue Survey
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Reports on a survey of physicians to determine how much money they made their affiliated hospitals to guide recruitment plans and physician compensation. Includes data from four years of surveys and covers a number of physician specialties.
Author: Merrit Hawkins
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Hospitals, National, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Recruitment and Retention, Trends and Emerging Issues
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All Primary Care Trainees Are Not the Same: The Role of Economic Factors and Career Choice
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Compares the impact of debt and financial incentives on internal medicine and pediatric trainees' decisions to pursue subspecialties or fellowship training. Concludes that primary care trainees differ in their views and behaviors.
Author: Freed GL, Dunham KM; and the Research Advisory Committee of the American Board of Pediatrics
Location: Pediatrics, 125(3), 574-7
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load
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Child Oral Health Resources for Primary Care Providers
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Offers a toolkit for primary care providers so they can provide oral health care and referrals. Contains resources from the New Jersey Smiles program that can be adapted for other states.
Organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Dental Occupations, Health Care Access, New Jersey, Physicians, Primary Care
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Community Health Centers and Health Reform: Summary of Key Health Center Provisions
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Summarizes provisions in the Senate health care reform bill and the Reconciliation Act that relate to community health centers. Includes funding for the National Health Service Corps and health center residency programs in primary care.
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Reform, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Federal Healthcare Reform and the Impact on Primary Care
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Summarizes major health care reforms related to primary care.
Organization: Primary Care Development Corporation
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Primary Care
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Final Report: Key Environmental Health Competencies for Rural Primary Care Providers
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Additional Links: Executive Summary and Competency Guide, Policy Brief
Identifies basic environmental health competences for rural primary care providers. Discusses the policy implications and areas for future research.
Organization: West Virginia Rural Health Research Center
Author: Persily CA, Beane JS, Rice MG
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Health Insurance Reform at a Glance: Strengthening the Nation's Health Workforce
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Identifies how the reconciliation act and Senate health reform bill will impact the health workforce. Covers primary care, nursing, the public health workforce, and more.
Organization: U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Nursing Occupations, Policy, Primary Care, Public Health
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A High-Touch Approach to Improving Oral Health for Newark Children
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Highlights the New Jersey Smiles program which increased access to dental care for children in Medicaid and Head Start through dental homes and coordination with primary care providers.
Organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Dentists, Health Care Access, New Jersey, Physicians, Primary Care
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How the Passage of Federal Health System Reform Legislation Impacts Your Practice
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Provides information for physicians on how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) may affect them, including incentive payments for certain primary care physicians and general surgeons.
Organization: American Medical Association
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project: Supporting Mental Health Treatment in Primary Care
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Describes a program in Massachusetts that addresses the shortage of child psychiatrists through providing assistance to primary care providers. Offers care coordination services, consultation, and referrals for health care providers as needed.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Holt W
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Health Care Access, Massachusetts, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Social Workers
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A Matter of Urgency: Reducing Emergency Department Overuse
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Examines the reasons for overuse of the emergency department (ED). Addresses how increasing access to primary care providers can decrease ED overuse.
Organization: NEHI
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Hospitals, National, Primary Care
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Minnesota Health Profile: A Chartbook for Health Status and Health Care Indicators Comparing Minnesota to North Dakota and the Nation
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Provides a comprehensive overview of Minnesota's health care system and the health of its population. Includes comparisons to North Dakota and the United States. Highlights data on the health care workforce on page 24.
Organization: Dakota Medical Foundation
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Mental Health Counselors, Minnesota, National, North Dakota, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Web site
Additional Link: Final Text of Legislation
Contains a number of critical provisions that will help strengthen the nation’s health care workforce. The Act establishes a National Health Workforce Commission and National and State Centers for Health Care Workforce Analysis. It also establishes Teaching Health Centers, an initiative that supports developing residency programs within qualified community-based ambulatory primary care settings.
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Quality, Health Reform, National, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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So Many New Patients; Are There Enough Doctors?
Audio
Includes the audio and transcript of a 3-minute interview on National Public Radio with Dr. Atul Grover from the Association of American Medical Colleges regarding expanded health care insurance coverage and the shortage of health care providers.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Author: Hansen L
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Substance Use Disorders and the Person-Centered Healthcare Home
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Discusses why substance use treatment should be integrated in the the patient-centered medical home and how to do so. Identifies providers' roles.
Organization: National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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What if All Physician Services Were Paid Under the Medicare Fee Schedule?
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Details annual and hourly salaries as if Medicare were the sole payer for 26 physician specialties and subspecialties. Compares the results to actual physician income to determine the effect of the Medicare Fee Schedule on physician compensation.
Organizations: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Urban Institute
Author: Berenson R, Zuckerman S, Stockley K, Nath R, Gans D, Hammons T
Date: 3/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Does Graduate Medical Education Also Follow Green?
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Examines median specialty income and the change in the number of residency positions by specialty. Concludes that hospitals allocate more of their residency positions to subspecialties rather than primary care specialties because they generate more revenue.
Author: Weida NA, Phillips RL Jr, Bazemore AW
Location: Archives of Internal Medicine, 170(4), 1131-2
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Evaluation of Integration Initiative: Year One Report
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Reports on a pilot program in Maine to integrate behavioral and physical health services. Covers staffing models, impact of workforce shortages, compensation, provider communication, training, and patient-centered care.
Organization: Maine Health Access Foundation
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Care Coordination, Education and Training, Maine, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Generalist Disciplines in American Medicine One Hundred Years Following the Flexner Report: A Case Study of Unintended Consequences and Some Proposals for Post-Flexnerian Reform
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Link: Abstract
Outlines how the academic health center system favors specialization and offers proposals to increase the number of generalists and return to a patient-centered model of care.
Author: Prislin MD, Saultz JW, Geyman JP
Location: Academic Medicine, 85(2), 228-35
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Education and Training, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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The Increasing Role of Medical Assistants in Small Primary Care Physician Practice: Key Issues and Policy Implications.
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Describes the background, training, and certification of medical assistants. Assesses the gaps in their training, and discusses the impact these gaps may have on the quality of patient care.
Organization: Center for the Health Professions
Author: Chapman S, Marks A, Chan M
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Licensure and Certification, Medical Assistants, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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It's About Time: Physicians' Perceptions of Time Constraints in Primary Care Medical Practice in Three National Healthcare Systems
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Link: Abstract
Analyzes the time primary care physicians had versus what they felt they needed for high-quality care in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Author: Konrad TR, Link CL, Shackelton RJ, Marceau LD, von dem Knesebeck O, Siegrist J, Arber S, Adams A, McKinlay JB
Location: Medical Care, 48(2), 95-100
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: International, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Lessons That Patient-Centered Medical Homes Can Learn From the Mistakes of HMOs
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Link: Abstract
Reviews the mistakes and lessons learned from health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and that can be applied to patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs).
Author: Mirabito AM, Berry LL
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 152(3), 182-5
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends Part I: The Massachusetts Health Care System in Context: Costs, Structure, and Methods Used by Private Insurers to Pay Providers
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Examines issues that contribute to the cost of health care in Massachusetts, including academic medical centers. Contains information on the supply of health care providers in Massachusetts and how physicians are paid.
Organization: Massachusetts Office of Health and Human Services
Author: Wallack SS, Thomas CP, Flieger SP, Altman SH
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Compensation, Dentists, Massachusetts, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Meta-analysis: Effect of Interactive Communication Between Collaborating Primary Care Physicians and Specialists
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Reviews the literature on collaboration between primary care physicians and specialists and outcomes for patients with cancer, psychiatric conditions, and diabetes.
Author: Foy R, Hempel S, Rubenstein L, Suttorp M, Seelig M, Shanman R, Shekelle PG
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 152(4), 247-58
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists
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Pediatric Primary Care as a Component of Systems of Care
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Link: Abstract
Supports changing the definition of systems of care to include primary care. Highlights pediatric primary care's provision of mental health services and the need to facilitate collaboration between primary care and mental health care providers.
Author: Brown JD
Location: Evaluation and Program Planning, 33(1), 36-8
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Care Coordination, General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Provider Payment: Trends and Methods in the Massachusetts Health Care System
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Examines physician payment methods in Massachusetts for the commercial and public sectors, including global payments and pay-for-performance. Includes a comparison between primary care and specialist physician payment methods.
Organizations: Massachusetts Office of Health and Human Services, Mathematica Policy Research
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Massachusetts, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Rebuilding Primary Care in New Orleans
Audio
Examines the safety-net clinic network developed in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in a twelve-minute podcast. Highlights the clinics that became medical homes.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Hausman S
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Louisiana, Primary Care
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State Multi-Payer Medical Home Initiatives and Medicare’s Advanced Primary Care Demonstration
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Provides examples of multi-payer medical home initiatives with significant state support, and compares them to the criteria proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Organization: National Academy for State Health Policy
Author: Buxbaum J, Takach M
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Primary Care
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Transdisciplinary Health Care Education: Training Team Players
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Link: Abstract
Discusses the importance of interprofessional training, summarizes some programs that incorporate it, identifies alternative models of interdisciplinary training such as student-run free clinics, and considers the future of transdisciplinary medical education.
Author: Nandiwada DR, Dang-Vu C
Location: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 21(1), 26-34
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Clinics, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Primary Care
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The Unsung Heroes of Health Care
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Discusses pharmacists expanding role in primary care and the medical home.
Organization: Health Workforce Information Center
Author: McEllistrem-Evenson A
Location: Health Workforce News
Date: 2/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Pharmacists, Primary Care
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Advance Practice Nurses: An Action Plan for the State of Kansas
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Discusses the role of advanced practice nurses (APRN) in improving access to primary care in Kansas. Summarizes the barriers to practice for APRNs and provides recommendations for overcoming these barriers.
Organization: Kansas State Board of Nursing
Author: Douglass M
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Health Care Access, Kansas, Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Scope of Practice
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Analysis of Emergency Department Use in Maine
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Examines factors that contribute to emergency department use in Maine, including primary care access issues.
Organizations: Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Health Access Foundation
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Hospitals, Maine, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Challenges and Opportunities for Osteopathic Medical Education
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Offers a presentation on osteopathic medical education from the UMDNJ-SOM Strategic Planning Session. Covers the current health care environment, the medical home, anticipated physician shortages, osteopathic medical school growth, average MCAT scores and grade point averages, graduate medical education, student debt, primary care, diversity, and more. Includes numerous charts.
Organization: American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
Author: Shannon SC
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Diversity, Education and Training, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Coming Out of Crisis: Patient Experiences in Primary Care in New Orleans, Four Years Post-Katrina—Findings from The Commonwealth Fund 2009 Survey of Clinic Patients in New Orleans
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Reports on efforts to reorganize New Orleans primary care infrastructure. Examines how community clinics in New Orleans serve high-need populations. Covers patient access, care coordination, preventative care, management of chronic diseases, and clinician patient relationships. Includes the survey used and survey results.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Doty MM, Abrams MK, Mika S, Rustgi S, Lawlor G
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Clinics, Health Care Access, Louisiana, Physicians, Primary Care
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Physician Assistants in Primary Care
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Examines the role of physician assistants in providing primary care services; includes examples.
Organization: American Academy of Physician Assistants
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Physician Assistants, Primary Care
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Recruitment and Retention of Primary Care Physicians at Community Health Centers: A Survey of Massachusetts Physicians
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Reports on a survey of primary care physicians in Massachusetts who work in community health centers. Focuses on why they work in community health centers.
Organizations: Massachusetts AHEC Network, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, Massachusetts Primary Care Office
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Massachusetts, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Teaching Primary Care in Community Health Centers: Addressing the Workforce Crisis for the Underserved
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Introduces a model of graduate medical education that would address the need for more primary care physicians for underserved areas and Medicaid patients.
Author: Rieselbach RE, Crouse BJ, Frohna JG
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 152(2), 118-22
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Title VII Is Critical to the Community Health Center and National Health Service Corps Workforce
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Highlights the impact of Title VII residency funding on National Health Service Corps and community health center physician staffing.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Harrison B, Rittenhouse DR, Phillips RL Jr, Grumbach K, Bazemore AW, Dodoo MS
Location: American Family Physician, 81(2), 132
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Residency Programs
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Alabama Primary Care Physician Shortage Issue Brief
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Highlights the primary care physician shortage in Alabama. Offers recommendations to increase the number of primary care providers in rural and underserved areas of the state.
Organization: Alabama Rural Health Association
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Case Study: Aetna's Embedded Case Managers Seek to Strengthen Primary Care
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Highlights a program sponsored by Aetna that uses nurse case managers in primary care practices to help manage patients' conditions.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Hostetter M
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, National, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care
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Center for Rural Health and Primary Care, 2010 Annual Report
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Makes available state data, national information, and program information affecting medically underserved and rural areas of Iowa. Part three addresses the health workforce. Identifies state loan repayment recipients by profession.
Organization: Iowa Department of Public Health
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Iowa, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, Policy, Primary Care, Rural
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Changes in the Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Family Medicine after Completing a Primary Care Course
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Examines how a primary care course in Spain affected students' view and knowledge of family medicine. Addresses the percent considering family medicine as their first-choice career option. Discusses other factors that may affect interest in family medicine.
Author: Rabadan FE, Hidalgo JL
Location: Family Medicine, 42(1), 35-40
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, International, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Community Paramedics Widen Medical Services in Rural Areas
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Examines a new model for paramedicine. Describes pilot programs in Minnesota and Colorado bringing emergency personnel into homes and other settings to provide non-acute care.
Author: Helseth C
Location: The Rural Monitor, Fall 2010
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Colorado, Education and Training, Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics, Minnesota, Primary Care, Rural, Scope of Practice
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Connecticut 2009 Primary Care Survey Instrument
Research instrument
Provides the cover letter and survey used by the Connecticut State Medical Society to gather information on the practice of primary care in the state.
Organization: Connecticut State Medical Society
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Connecticut, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods
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Connecticut 2009 Primary Care Survey: Adoption of the Medical Home in Connecticut
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Reports on adoption of key features of the medical home by primary care practices in Connecticut. Covers use of nurse managers and teams, open access scheduling, electronic medical records, and more. Identifies decreased wait times for practices using open access scheduling.
Organization: Connecticut State Medical Society
Author: Aseltine RH Jr, Katz MC, Geragosian AH
Location: Connecticut Medicine, 74(10), 601-7
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Connecticut, Health Care Access, Physicians, Primary Care
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Council on Medical Education Report 8: Enhancing Primary Care as a Medical Career Choice
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Describes physician selection of primary care practice, identifies barriers to choosing a primary care specialty, summarizes factors that could overcome these barriers, and suggests strategies to implement.
Organization: American Medical Association
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Enhancing the Continuum of Care: Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care through Affiliations with FQHCs
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Offers examples of requirements and recommendations that federally qualified health centers and community mental health centers should consider when creating affiliation agreements.
Organization: National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Federally Qualified Health Centers, National, Primary Care
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Equity of Access in the Spatial Distribution of GPs within an Australian Metropolitan City
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Link: Abstract
Examines access to primary care providers using geographic information system (GIS) techniques. Supports the use of GIS techniques rather than population to provider ratios for measuring access to primary care within metropolitan cities.
Author: Roeger LS, Reed RL, Smith BP
Location: Australian Journal of Primary Health, 16(4), 284-90
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, International, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods
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Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care
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Summarizes the evidence and state experiences in integrating behavioral health into primary care. Provides eight models of coordinating physical and mental health care. Discusses integrated care models, including medical homes.
Organization: Milbank Memorial Fund
Author: Collins C, Hewson DL, Munger R, Wade T
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Demonstrating Primary Care Needs for a Transitioning Hispanic Community
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Reports on the development of a geospatial model for identifying where Hispanic community members would benefit most from increased access to primary care services.
Author: Dulin MF, Ludden TM, Tapp H, Smith HA, de Hernandez BU, Blackwell J, Furuseth OJ
Location: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 23(1), 109-20
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, North Carolina, Primary Care
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In Focus: Using Pharmacists, Social Workers, and Nurses to Improve the Reach and Quality of Primary Care
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Discusses how the use of teams can improve primary care capacity. Highlights the successful use of teams in several health care systems.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Klein S
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care
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Internists and Physician Assistants: Team-Based Primary Care
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Reports on the physician assistant workforce, education, licensure and certification, scope of practice, reimbursement, and roles in primary care and the medical home. Offers position statements.
Organizations: American Academy of Physician Assistants, American College of Physicians
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Education and Training, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Licensure and Certification, National, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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Medical Assistants: The Invisible "Glue" of Primary Health Care Practices in the United States?
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Link: Abstract
Explores the roles medical assistants (MAs) currently play in primary care settings, and focuses on the work scope and dynamics of these increasingly common healthcare personnel.
Author: Taché S, Hill-Sakurai L
Location: Journal of Health Organization and Management, 24(3), 288-305
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Medical Assistants, National, Primary Care
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Medical Students' Attitudes toward Underserved Populations: Changing Associations with Choice of Primary Care versus Non-Primary Care Residency
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Link: Abstract
Evaluates whether student attitudes towards underserved populations effects choice of a primary care residency.
Author: Wayne S, Timm C, Serna L, Solan B, Kalishman S
Location: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 21(2), 438-47
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care
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Supports the role of nurse practitioners in helping people access quality primary care. Describes the history and development of their role. Addresses medical malpractice law.
Author: Hansen-Turton T, Ware J, McClellan F
Location: Temple Law Review, 82(5), 1235-1263
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Malpractice Insurance, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Trends and Emerging Issues
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The President's Proposal: Title V. Health Care Workforce
Web site
Summarizes the health workforce elements of President Obama's health care reform proposal.
Organization: The White House
Author: Obama B
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Policy, Primary Care
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Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home and Preventive Services Delivery
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Examines whether patient-centered medical home principles increase preventative care in primary care offices. Supports an alternative model of primary care that decreases the burden on primary care physicians.
Author: Ferrante JM, Balasubramanian BA, Hudson SV, Crabtree BF
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 8(2), 108-16
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Ratio of Population to Primary Care Physicians
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Reports the current rate of primary care physicians to the Kansas population. Includes time series data from 2002 to 2010. Offers state, county, or public health preparedness region data by selecting options under "Zoom to" or "View by" drop-downs.
Organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Kansas, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Recruit, Reward, Reengineer
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Link: Abstract
Identifies strategies hospitals are using to deal with the primary care shortage.
Author: Aston G
Location: Trustee, 63(10), 6-10, 1
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Hospitals, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Reform, Reform Everywhere and Not a Primary Care Dollar to Drink
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Offers a perspective on the need for more funding for research on the organization and process of primary care.
Author: North American Primary Care Research Group
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 8(2), 179-80
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Primary Care
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Relationships of Demographic Background and Practice Setting among Practicing Physician Assistants in the United States
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Link: Abstract
Examines the relationships between demographic variables and whether physician assistants choose to specialize in primary care and work in underserved areas.
Author: Muma RD, Kelley J, Lies S
Location: Journal of Physician Assistant Education, 21(2), 15-21
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, National, Physician Assistants, Primary Care
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Scholars in Rural Health: Outcomes From an Assured Admissions Program
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Describes a program in Kansas intended to recruit students from rural communities to medical school. Evaluates the success of the program in increasing the number of primary care physicians in underserved areas.
Author: Kallail KJ, McCurdy S
Location: Family Medicine, 42(10), 729-31
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, Kansas, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Workforce Pipeline
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State Roles in Delivery System Reform
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Outlines opportunities for policymakers to lead health system reform efforts and the evidence supporting various initiatives. Addresses the health workforce in chapters on care coordination strategies, primary care, health care payment systems, health care quality, and more.
Organization: National Governors Association
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Care Quality, National, Policy, Primary Care
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Successful Practices in College/School Involvement with Pharmacists Integration in Primary Care Practice
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Describes pharmacy school programs that facilitate interdisciplinary training between pharmacy students and physicians. Highlights program outcomes and provides contact information.
Organization: American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Pharmacists, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Teaching Health Center: Training Team Players to Provide Better Health Care to the Underserved
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Highlights how teaching health centers (THC) can address the need for more primary care physicians in underserved areas and promote the use of teams. Identifies policy options to support THC, including adding a teaching component to the National Health Service Corps.
Organization: Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
Author: Nandiwada DR, Dang-Vu C
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Understand a Community's Primary Care Needs
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Offers a mapping model for identifying areas in a community that need increased access to primary care services.
Author: Dulin MF, Ludden TM, Tapp H, Blackwell J, de Hernandez BU, Smith HA, Furuseth OJ
Location: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 23(1), 13-21
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, North Carolina, Primary Care
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West Virginia Health Sciences and Rural Health Report Card 2010
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Examines medical school enrollment, retention, debt, the number choosing primary care, the Rural Health Education Partnerships program, and rural recruitment in West Virginia. Includes data for each of the state's medical schools and maps showing medical graduate distribution.
Organization: West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural, West Virginia
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Workforce Planning Maps
Web site
Provides maps for various health care professionals' supply and distribution in Montana. Offers maps with the locations of various health-related programs or events.
Organizations: Montana AHEC, Montana Office of Rural Health
Date: 2010
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Tagged keywords: Audiologists, Chiropractors, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Health Aides, Assistants and Guides, Health Care Access, Midwives, Montana, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Aides, Nursing Occupations, Optometrists, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Profession-by-Profession, Psychologists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Supply and Demand, Vision Care Occupations
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Addressing the Primary Care Workforce Crisis for the Underserved
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Proposes a link between primary care graduate medical education and care for the underserved in community health centers, where expansion will be necessary for the anticipated increase in Medicaid and insured patients. Addresses the primary care physician workforce crisis, limited access for the underserved, and primary care graduate medical education.
Author: Rieselbach R, Crouse B, Frohna J
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Public Health
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The Anticipated Physician Shortage: Meeting the Nation’s Need for Physician Services
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Reviews data on the physician shortage with a focus on primary care, and offers recommendations for how to increase the primary care physician supply. Supports an increase in residency positions for primary care specialties and offers suggestions for how to make primary care a more attractive career option.
Organization: Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine
Author: Kane GC, Grever MR, Kennedy JI, Kuzma MA, Saltzman AR, Wiernik PH, Baptista NV
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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Closing the Health Care Workforce Gap: Reforming Federal Health Care Workforce Policies to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century
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Discusses health workforce issues from a progressive perspective and offers policy recommendations to help balance the distribution, supply, and mix of health professionals needed to support the United States health care system. Supports the creation of a National Health Workforce Commission.
Organization: Center for American Progress
Author: Derksen DJ, Whelan E
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Diversity, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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An Enhanced Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (E2SFCA) Method for Measuring Spatial Accessibility to Primary Care Physicians
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Link: Abstract
Offers a different way to measure spatial access to primary care physicians and determine health professional shortage areas. Reports on a study in northern Illinois.
Author: Luo W, Qi Y
Location: Health & Place, 15(4), 1100-7
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Illinois, Physicians, Primary Care, Shortage Designations
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Evaluation of the Optimizing Primary Care Collaborative
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Evaluates the effectiveness of a program to optimize primary care in a community health center setting. Impacts discussed include improves provider productivity and improved provider and staff satisfaction.
Organizations: California Healthcare Foundation, California Primary Care Association
Author: Emont S, Emont N
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, California, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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From Staff-Mix to Skill-Mix and Beyond: Towards a Systemic Approach to Health Workforce Management
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Reviews the literature on human resources management, with a focus on the optimization of the health workforce, which is one strategy for addressing shortages. Considers skill development and flexibility, collaboration, scope of practice, staffing ratios, compensation, and more.
Author: Dubois CA, Singh D
Location: Human Resources for Health, 7(87)
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, International, National, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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The Health Care Problem No One's Talking About
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Link: Abstract
Discusses the problem of increasing numbers of insured Americans who lack access to primary care. Identifies eight barriers, including a decreasing number of primary care physicians, and ways to overcome those barriers.
Organization: University of California-San Francisco Department of Family and Community Medicine
Author: Berry-Millett R, Bandara S, Bodenheimer T.
Location: Journal of Family Practice, 58 (12), 633-7
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Interdependence of General Surgeons and Primary Care Physicians in Rural Communities
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Link: Abstract
Describes the interactions between primary care physicians and general surgeons in rural communities. Covers care coordination and scope of practice.
Author: Pathman DE, Ricketts TC 3rd
Location: Surgical Clinics of North America, 89(6), 1293-302, vii-viii
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Scope of Practice
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Primary Care and Accountable Care — Two Essential Elements of Delivery-System Reform
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Compares the patient-centered medical home and the accountable care organization and identifies elements important for their success.
Author: Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SM, Fisher ES
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 361(24), 2301-03
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Policy, Primary Care
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Public Mental Health Care in Louisiana: An Analysis of Louisiana's Fragmented System of Care and Options for Reform
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Provides an overview of Louisiana's public behavioral health system. Supports the integration of primary care and behavioral health services, patient-centered medical homes, and payment reforms to increase access to behavioral health care in the state. Highlights the Capital Area Human Services District (CAHSD) program as a model to replicate in other parts of the state.
Organization: Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, Louisiana, Medicare and Medicaid, Policy, Primary Care
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Public Policy Agenda 2010: Addressing Colorado's Primary Care Provider Shortage
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Discusses the anticipated shortage of primary care providers by 2025 in Colorado. Identifies actions the State of Colorado should take in 2010.
Organization: Colorado Rural Health Center
Author: Colorado Health Professions Workforce Policy Collaborative
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Colorado, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Relationship of Primary Care Physicians' Patient Caseload With Measurement of Quality and Cost Performance
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Links: Abstract, Highlights
Analyzes methods of measuring performance for primary care physicians. Concludes that few practices have enough patients to reliably measure relative differences for Medicare fee-for-service patients.
Author: Nyweide DJ, Weeks WB, Gottlieb DJ, Casalino LP, Fisher ES
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(22), 2444-50
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Supplying the Demand for Primary Care Doctors
Audio
Includes the audio and transcript from a five-minute interview with the Association of American Medical Colleges' chief advocacy officer on National Public Radio on the shortage of primary care physicians.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Date: 12/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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2009 State Physician Workforce Data Book
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Examines the active physician and primary care physician supply in each state, current medical school enrollment, physicians in graduate medical education programs, and in-state retention rates. Includes data charts and tables for all 50 states with age, gender, and international medical school graduate data, in addition to national averages.
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Education and Training, International Medical Graduates, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, State-by-State, Supply and Demand
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Access to Care: Beyond an Insurance Card
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Examines why access to health care insurance may not guarantee access to care. Addresses primary care shortages, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, and other health workforce issues.
Organization: Alliance for Health Reform
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Primary Care
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Minutes of Meeting - November 12-13, 2009
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Summarizes speeches regarding the social mission of medical education, teaching health centers, and primary care supply and demand modeling. Discusses the committee's 8th and 9th reports and Title VII, section 747 reauthorization.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Policy, Primary Care
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Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) Minutes of Meeting – November 18-19, 2009
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Summarizes discussions on health reform, the number and mix of graduate medical education slots, physician supply, primary care, and a model residency program intended to increase physician workforce diversity.
Organization: Council on Graduate Medical Education
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, International Medical Graduates, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Supply and Demand
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Ensuring Progress in Primary Care — What Can Health Care Reform Realistically Accomplish?
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Describes the components of health care reform that deal with primary care.
Author: Chokshi DA
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 361(20), e43
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Expanding the Primary Care Workforce: An Essential Element of Health Care Reform
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Discusses the need for primary care providers, health care shortages, and health care reform.
Organization: Center for American Progress
Author: Whelan E
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Obtaining Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition: A How-To Manual
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Offers a step-by-step guide to help organizations obtain recognition as a medical home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Physician Practice Connections Patient-Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH) program.
Organizations: Primary Care Development Corporation, The New York Community Trust
Author: Reiner C, Sacks R, Neal R
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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Physician Workforce in Nevada Characteristics and Distribution 2009 Edition
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Reports on Nevada's physician workforce. Covers demographics, distribution, international medical graduates, osteopathic physicians, specialties, supply trends, the number in patient care, the number per 100,000 people in each county, and residents.
Organization: University of Nevada School of Medicine
Author: Packham J, Griswold T
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: International Medical Graduates, Nevada, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The Primary Care Crisis and Health Care Reform
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Link: Summary
Discusses the need for more primary care professionals and policy options for strengthening the primary care workforce.
Author: Sherman P, Moscou S, Dang-Vu C
Location: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 20(4), 944–950
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The Primary Care Workforce Supply and Health Reform
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Discusses how health reform may affect demand for primary care physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. Highlights related research supported by Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization.
Organization: Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Report of Responses to the 2003, 2005 and 2007 Indiana Physician Surveys
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Provides the results from three surveys of Indiana's physicians. Covers demographics, employment characteristics, specialties, primary care, distribution by county, and trends.
Organization: Indiana AHEC Program
Author: Allen DI, Zollinger TW, Kochhar K, Reger MK, Chowdhury S
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Indiana, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Research Insights: Medical Homes and Accountable Care Organizations: If We Build It, Will they Come?
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Highlights the challenges likely to develop as medical homes and accountable care organizations emerge in the care delivery landscape. Discusses solutions to resolve those challenges.
Organization: AcademyHealth
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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Rural Primary Care Physician Payment 2006–2009: What a Difference Three Years Doesn’t Make
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Examines a change in a Medicare reimbursement to determine its impact on rural primary care physicians. Compares several states for illustration.
Organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Author: MacKinney AC, Mueller KJ, Charlton M
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Medicare and Medicaid, National, North Dakota, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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A Survey of Primary Care Physicians in 11 Countries, 2009: Perspectives on Care, Costs, and Experiences
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Links: Abstract, Summary
Reports on a survey of primary care physicians from twelve countries on health care access, use of health information technology, and health care quality. Identifies areas the US could improve upon and policies that have been effective in other countries.
Author: Schoen C, Osborn R, Doty MM, Squires D, Peugh J, Applebaum S
Location: Health Affairs Web Exclusive, w1171–w1183
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, International, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Training Residents in Community Health Centers: Facilitators and Barriers
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Supports affiliating family medicine residency (FMR) clinics with community health centers (CHCs) to help increase the number of family physicians working at CHCs and increase the nation's primary care physician supply. Examines the barriers and facilitators of CHC-FMR partnerships.
Author: Morris CG, Chen FM
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 7, 488-494
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, Federally Qualified Health Centers, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Wishing Upon a STAR∗D: The Promise of Ideal Depression Care by Primary Care Providers
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Link: Abstract
Analyzes the implications for primary care providers of the STAR∗D trial, which compared the outcomes of patients treated for depression by primary care providers to those treated by mental health specialists.
Author: Ong MK, Rubenstein LV
Location: Psychiatric Services, 60(11), 1460-62
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Health Care Access, National, Primary Care
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Associations Between Structural Capabilities of Primary Care Practices and Performance on Selected Quality Measures
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Additional Link: Fact Sheet
Reports on a study of primary care practitioners in Massachusetts. Identifies a correlation between the use of multifunctional electronic health records and quality health care.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Friedberg MW, Coltin KL, Safran DG, Dresser M, Zaslavsky AM, Schneider EC
Date: 10/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, Health Information Technology and Telehealth, Massachusetts, Primary Care
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Commentary: Physician Retirement and Physician Shortages
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Introduces the recruitment of older physicians into primary care as a strategy for addressing the physician shortage, especially in rural areas.
Author: Nusbaum NJ
Location: Journal of Community Health, 34(5), 353-6
Date: 10/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Establishing Accountable Physical/Behavioral Health Care Homes: Medicaid Innovations
Video or multimedia
Offers a ninety minute webinar on Pennsylvania's integrated behavioral and physical health care home.
Organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
Date: 10/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Medicare and Medicaid, Pennsylvania, Primary Care
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Incremental Cost Estimates for the Patient-Centered Medical Home
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Analyzes the costs involved with creating and running a medical home.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Zuckerman S, Merrell K, Bereson R, Gans DN, Underwood WS
Date: 10/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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A Need for Leadership in Primary Health Care for the Underserved: A Call to Action
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Offers a perspective on the importance of creating programs to increase the number of primary care providers for underserved areas. Lists five steps academic medical centers can take to help meet this need.
Author: Markuns JF, Culpepper L, Halpin WJ
Location: Academic Medicine, 84(10), 1325-27
Date: 10/2009
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Partners in Health: Primary Care / County Mental Health Collaboration Tool Kit
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Offers a tool kit for mental health agencies, primary care clinics, and substance abuse programs to help them coordinate care. Includes information, sample agreements, forms, evaluation and screening instruments, and resources.
Organizations: National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, The California Endowment
Author: Lurie BD
Date: 10/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Clinics, National, Primary Care
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State Strategies for Care Coordination, Case Management, and Linkages for Young Children: A Scan of State Medicaid, Title V, and Part C Agencies
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Reports on a scan of state programs intended to link primary care practices, family and child service providers, and state systems. Summarizes initiatives that could improve care coordination for children.
Organizations: National Academy for State Health Policy, The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Purington K
Date: 10/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Policy, Primary Care
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Title VII's Decline: Shrinking Investment in the Primary Care Training Pipeline
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Highlights the decrease in funding for Title VII and the decline in the primary care workforce in a Graham One-Pager.
Organizations: American Academy of Family Physicians, Robert Graham Center
Author: Harrison B, Bazemore AW, Dodoo MS, Teevan B, Wittenberg H, Phillips RL Jr.
Location: American Family Physician, 80(8), 872
Date: 10/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Policy, Primary Care
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Association of an Educational Program in Mindful Communication With Burnout, Empathy, and Attitudes Among Primary Care Physicians
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Addresses primary care physician burnout through an educational program. Examines whether the CME course improved the attitudes and well-being of participating physicians.
Author: Krasner MS, Epstein RM, Beckman H, Suchman AL, Chapman B, Mooney CJ, Quill TE
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(12), 1284-93
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: Continuing Education, Health Care Quality, New York, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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British Lessons on Health Care Reform
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Compares the US and British health care systems. Identifies ways Britain has promoted primary care as a career choice.
Author: Kerr DJ, Scott M
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 361(21), 13
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, International, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Building the Medical Home
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Discusses primary care shortages, the medical home concept, and how they relate to hospitals.
Author: Huff C
Location: Hospitals & Health Networks, 83(9), 25-7, 1
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Hospitals, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Care in the Country: A Historical Case Study of Long-Term Sustainability in 4 Rural Health Centers
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Explores the histories of four surviving rural primary care programs and identified factors that contributed to their sustainability. Includes physician advocates, innovative practices, organizational flexibility, and community integration.
Author: Wright D
Location: American Journal of Public Health, 99 (9), 1612-1618
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Primary Care, Rural
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Doctors as the Key to Health Care Reform
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Offers a perspective on the importance of doctors in reforming health care. Addresses rising medical costs.
Author: Relman AS
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 361(13), 1225-27
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Engaging Primary Care Medical Providers in Children’s Oral Health
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Updates a 2008 report on state efforts to increase access to oral health care through the use of medical providers, The Role of Physicians in Children’s Oral Health. Identifies states that reimburse primary care providers for oral health services through Medicaid. Discusses how primary care providers can provide preventative oral health services for young children.
Organization: National Academy for State Health Policy
Author: Cantrell C
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: Dental Occupations, Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Enhanced Medical Home for Medi-Cal's SPD Population
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Reviews possible medical home models for people with chronic illnesses and disabilities in California's Medi-Cal program. Reports on stakeholder interviews and lessons from other state-operated programs.
Organizations: California Healthcare Foundation, Center for Health Care Strategies
Author: Somers SA, Bella M, Lind AR
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: California, Care Coordination, Primary Care
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Enhanced Primary Care Case Management Programs in Medicaid: Issues and Options for States
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Additional Link: Report Overview
Examines how five state Medicaid programs have used primary care case management (PCCM) programs to improve care coordination and management of chronic illnesses. Addresses staffing and care coordination.
Organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
Author: Verdier JM, Byrd V, Stone C, Mathematica Policy Research
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: Arkansas, Care Coordination, Indiana, Medicare and Medicaid, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Primary Care
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The Grandparents Corps: A New Primary Care Model
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Offers a perspective on how retirees can train as community health workers for federally qualified health centers to improve health care access and free up nurses' and physicians' time.
Author: Garson A
Location: Health Affairs Blog
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Community Health Workers, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, National, Primary Care
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Improving Medicaid Managed Care for Youth with Serious Behavioral Health Needs: A Quality Improvement Toolkit
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Provides examples of initiatives that have improved access to behavioral health care for adolescents. Includes a section on educating primary care providers to identify and treat adolescent depression.
Organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Primary Care
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Persistent Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Health Care Access in Rural America
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Examines the degree to which persistence of primary care HPSA designation in rural counties is associated with lower population socioeconomic status and deficiencies in access to health care services.
Organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Author: Doescher M, Fordyce M, Skillman S, Jackson E, Rosenblatt R
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, National, Primary Care, Rural, Shortage Designations
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Physicians and Their Practices under Health Care Reform: A Report to the President and the Congress
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Discusses issues to consider when reforming the health care system with a focus on physicians. Addresses physician supply, distribution, medical education, primary care, clinical care teams, and more.
Organization: The Physicians Foundation
Author: Cooper RA, Getzen T, Johns MME, Ross-Lee B, Sheldon GF, Whitcomb ME
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care Physicians by State
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Identifies the number of primary care physicians in every state.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Date: 9/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, State-by-State, Supply and Demand
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2008 Physician Survey: Statistical Report
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Additional Link: Summary Report
Reports on a survey of Vermont's physicians. Includes demographics, training, distribution by county and specialty, and practice characteristics, with comparisons to data from previous surveys. Identifies the percent of Vermont's physicians accepting new Medicaid patients and average patient care hours by physician age. Provides the survey instrument used.
Organization: Vermont Department of Health
Date: 8/2009
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Supply and Demand, Vermont
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2009 Pulse of Pennsylvania's Physician and Physician Assistant Workforce: A Report on the 2008 Survey of Physicians and Physician Assistants
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Provides detailed information on the physician and physician assistant workforce in Pennsylvania. Includes specialty information and the number of various primary care physicians in each county in the state.
Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Health
Date: 8/2009
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Medicare and Medicaid, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Pennsylvania, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Distance Education Training in Behavioral Health: A Rural Primary Care Needs Assessment and Pilot Webcast
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Assesses the needs of rural primary care providers for training on mental health issues. Supports distance learning.
Organization: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
Author: McFaul M, Mohatt D, Ciarlo J, Westfall J
Date: 8/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Education and Training, Mental Health Counselors, National, Primary Care, Rural
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Emergency Departments Under Growing Pressures
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Identifies how the recession is affecting hospital emergency departments. Reports that emergency department demand for primary care is increasing due to uninsurance, requiring hospitals to hire more physicians.
Organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Author: Paradise J, Dark C
Date: 8/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Hospitals, National, Primary Care
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A Health Insurance Mandate and Its Effects on Health Care Demands
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Analyzes the impact of increased health insurance coverage on demand for primary care providers in Mississippi by county and micro-region.
Organization: Mississippi Center for Health Workforce
Author: DiColandrea NDA, Butts CC, Cossman JS
Date: 8/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, Mississippi, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Medical Assistants: A Primary Care Workforce Solution?
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Link: Abstract
Discusses a new medical assistant training program has been developed as an innovative solution to the workforce pressures facing general practice in Australia.
Applicable and relevant to U.S. medical assistants.
Author: Anderson A, Proudfoot J, Harris M
Location: Australian Family Physician, 38(8), 623-626
Date: 8/2009
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Tagged keywords: International, Medical Assistants, National, Primary Care
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Montana's Primary Care Workforce
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Assesses the current primary care workforce in Montana. Examines primary care physicians, physician assistants, certified nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners, and dentists and dental hygienists.
Organizations: Montana AHEC, Montana Office of Rural Health, Montana State University
Author: Rivard S
Date: 8/2009
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Tagged keywords: Dental Hygienists, Dentists, Midwives, Montana, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care
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Primary Care Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Full-time Equivalency Distribution, Kansas 2009: Research Summary
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Contains information about the total full-time equivalencies provided by ARNPs currently engaged in direct patient care in primary care specialties by county.
Organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Author: Lindbloom R
Date: 8/2009
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Tagged keywords: Kansas, Nurse Practitioners, Primary Care
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Strategies to Support the Integration of Mental Health into Pediatric Primary Care
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Highlights how frequently primary care providers manage mental health issues. Discusses strategies for coordinating children's mental health care in the primary care setting. Identifies policies that can support mental health integration.
Organization: National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation
Date: 8/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, General Pediatricians, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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The Case for Teaching Health Centers
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Policy brief discussing the potential positive impact on the primary care workforce of developing residency programs within community-based ambulatory primary care settings such as health centers.
Organization: George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Author: Mullan F, Chen C, Wiley E
Date: 7/2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Federally Qualified Health Centers, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Idaho Rural Family Physician Workforce Study: Examining the Trait of Grit and Satisfaction in Idaho Physicians
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Examines the psychological construct grit and satisfaction among rural and non-rural primary and specialty care physicians in Idaho.
Organizations: Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Idaho State Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Author: Reed AJ, Schmitz D, Baker E, Nukui A, Sand J, Wilson H, Epperly T
Date: 7/2009
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, Idaho, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Rural
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Maine Barriers to Integration Study: The View from Maine on the Barriers to Integrated Care and Recommendations for Moving Forward
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Identifies barriers to the integration of health care services in Maine. Reports on interviews with stakeholders on how those barriers can be overcome. Summarizes the findings and recommendations.
Organization: Maine Health Access Foundation
Author: Gale JA, Lambert D
Date: 7/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Maine, Primary Care
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Pharmacists’ Contributions to Primary Care in the U.S. — Collaborating to Address Unmet Patient Care Needs: The Emerging Role for Pharmacists to Address the Shortage of Primary Care Providers
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Discusses how pharmacists can address the growing primary care medication management needs by being part of the primary care team. Provides examples of care models. Identifies regulatory barriers for pharmacists.
Organization: American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Author: Manolakis PG, Skelton JB
Date: 7/2009
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, National, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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Q&A with Rick Smith, Director of National Health Service Corps
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Interview with Rick Smith, who answers questions about the NHSC's involvement with the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act.
Organization: Health Workforce Information Center
Author: Trude L
Location: Health Workforce News
Date: 7/2009
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Tagged keywords: Financial Aid, Health Care Access, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Recommendations of the Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System
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Compares various health care payment methods, such as fee-for-service and episode-based payment. Addresses the impact on demand and interest in primary care. Provides recommendations for how to reform Massachusetts' payment system.
Organization: Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Author: Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System
Date: 7/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Care Quality, Health Reform, Massachusetts, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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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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Working Condition in Primary Care: Physician Reactions and Care Quality
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Reports on the findings of a study of primary care workplaces. Includes challenges for practicing physicians such as work conditions, workflow, job characteristics, organizational culture, and difficulties in recruiting and retaining primary care physicians.
Author: Linzer M, Manvell L, Williams E, Bobula J, Brown R, Varkey A, Man B, McMurray J, Maguire A, Horner-Ibler B, Schwartz M
Location: Annals of Internal Medicine, 151(1), 28-36
Date: 7/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, Illinois, New York, Physicians, Primary Care, Wisconsin
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The Aging of the Primary Care Physician Workforce: Are Rural Locations Vulnerable?
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Examines the location of near-retirement primary care physicians and offers solutions.
Organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Date: 6/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Beware The Siren Song Of New GME: Graduate Medical Education And Health Reform
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Provides a perspective on how the current plans to increase Medicare funding for Graduate Medical Education programs will hurt primary care and increase the number of International Medical Graduates. Suggests alternatives.
Author: Mullan F, Wiley E
Date: 6/2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Distance Learning in Depression for Rural Primary Care and Mental Health Providers
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Discusses the development of effective distance education methods to train rural primary care providers in integrated care models for depression using computer based training and materials adapted from the MacArthur Initiative on Depression & Primary Care.
Author: Adams S, McFaul M, Dong F, Fortney J
Date: 6/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Education and Training, Interprofessional Training and Education, Mental Health Counselors, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Factors Affecting Specialty Choice among Osteopathic Medical Students
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Link: Abstract
Examines the experiences and characteristics of osteopathic medical students who picked primary care. Reports on a survey of fourth-year osteopathic medical students.
Author: Teitelbaum HS, Ehrlich N, Travis L
Location: Academic Medicine, 84(6), 718-23
Date: 6/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Osteopathic Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Finding Resources for Health Reform and Bending the Health Care Cost Curve
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Examines health reform policy options. Includes a section on provider payments options that would support primary care physicians on pages 17-19.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Nuzum R, Mika S, Schoen C, Davis K
Date: 6/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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The Future of Family Medicine and Implications for Rural Primary Care Physicians
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Offers a policy brief on the declining interest in family medicine, its effect on rural areas, and potential solutions.
Organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Date: 6/2009
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, National, Primary Care, Rural, Supply and Demand
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The Influence of Regional Basic Science Campuses on Medical Students' Choice of Specialty and Practice Location: A Historical Cohort Study
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Examines whether training at regional campuses influenced Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) students to pursue primary care careers outside the Indianapolis metropolitan area.
Author: Brokaw JJ, Mandzuk CA, Wade ME, Deal DW, Johnson MT, White GW, Wilson JS, Zollinger TW
Location: BMC Medical Education, 9:29
Date: 6/2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Indiana, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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A Lifeline for Primary Care
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Discusses factors which contribute to medical students not choosing primary care residencies.
Author: Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K, Berenson R
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 360(26), 2693-2696
Date: 6/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services, Meeting Minutes - June 9-11, 2009
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Provides minutes from the NACRHHS, which provides recommendations on rural health and human services issues to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Covers the following topics: rural primary care provider workforce, home and community based care for rural seniors, and health care provider integration.
Organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
Date: 6/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Policy, Primary Care, Rural
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Osteopathic Medicine and Medical Education and Health Care Reform
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Offers a presentation from the 98th Annual Convention of the Maine Osteopathic Association. Contains detailed data on osteopathic medical school enrollment, the osteopathic physician workforce, and physician shortages. Discusses primary care choice, health care reform issues like the medical home, and student debt load.
Organization: American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
Date: 6/2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Reform, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Student Debt Load, Supply and Demand
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Addressing the Primary Care Physician Shortage in an Evolving Medical Workforce
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Discusses the decrease in primary care physicians, contributing factors, and solutions. Identifies minority students, international medical graduates, and osteopathic physicians as three groups more likely to go into primary care.
Author: Lakhan SE, Laird C
Location: International Archives of Medicine, 2(1), 14
Date: 5/2009
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, International Medical Graduates, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Building Primary Care Medical Homes within the Community Care of North Carolina Program
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Highlights Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC), a statewide partnership between primary care physicians and the North Carolina Medicaid program, and their success with the medical home concept.
Author: Willson C
Location: North Carolina Medical Journal, 70(3), 231-236
Date: 5/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, North Carolina, Physicians, Primary Care
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Comparison of Primary Care Received by NH Medicaid Members at Different Practice Settings
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Compares the performance of primary care practices by practice setting based on access, quality, utilization, and cost measures.
Organization: New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
Date: 5/2009
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Tagged keywords: New Hampshire, Primary Care
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Effects of Proposed Primary Care Incentive Payments on Average Physician Medicare Revenue and Total Medicare Allowed Charges
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Examines a proposed change in Medicare payments that would increase primary care physicians' revenue. Discusses whether the resulting decrease in the income gap between specialized physicians and primary care physicians might increase the primary care supply.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Date: 5/2009
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Making Care Coordination a Critical Component of the Pediatric Health System: A Multidisciplinary Framework
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Offers a framework for coordinating pediatric health care and defines care coordination.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Antonelli RC, McAllister JW, Popp J
Date: 5/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Care Quality, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Primary Care
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Oversimplifying Primary Care Supply and Shortages
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Link: Abstract
Discusses the need to identify which primary care specialties are experiencing shortages, especially when developing policies to address shortages. Highlights primary care pediatricians as one specialty that has enough physicians.
Author: Freed GL, Stockman JA
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 301(18), 1920-1922
Date: 5/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Minutes of Meeting - April 20, 2009
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Addresses grant funding under Title VII, section 747. Identifies recommendations for the committee's 8th annual report such as community-based training.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Education and Training, National, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Behavioral Health / Primary Care Integration and the Person-Centered Healthcare Home
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Examines the patient-centered medical home as it relates to people with serious mental illnesses. Discusses the importance of integrating behavioral health and primary care in order to address mental health disparities.
Organization: National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Care Coordination, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Primary Care
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Coordination of Care by Primary Care Practices: Strategies, Lessons and Implications
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Examines strategies physicians use to coordinate care for their patients.
Organizations: Center for Studying Health System Change, Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
Author: O'Malley AS, Tynan A, Cohen G, Kemper NM, Davis MM
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) Minutes of Meeting – April 22, 2009
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Addresses the committee's 16th annual report on physician workforce policy guidelines. Summarizes discussion on how graduate medical education needs to change to meet physician workforce needs.
Organization: Council on Graduate Medical Education
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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The Crisis in Rural Primary Care
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Discusses the decline of students choosing primary care careers due to low compensation, rising malpractice premiums, professional isolation, limited time off, and scarcity of jobs for spouses.
Organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Primary Care, Rural
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Developing a Strong Primary Care Workforce
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Summarizes an April 2009 meeting held in Washington, DC which discussed healthcare workforce. Included four organizations with expertise in primary care and prevention, recruitment of high school and college students into the health professions, medical education, and guide training for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and others.
Organization: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Development of a 21st Century Healthcare Workforce Plan for Arizona: Report of the Primary Care Workgroup
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Discusses the current state of the health care workforce in Arizona with recommendations for recruitment, retention, planning, and training. Includes data on the supply of primary care providers (physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners) in the state.
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand
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Educating Primary Care Physicians in the Management of Alzheimer's Disease: Using Practice Guidelines to Set Quality Benchmarks
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Link: Abstract
Describes strategies based on evidence-based practice used to train primary care physicians in the identification, diagnosis, and management of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders in order to improve dementia care.
Author: Cherry DL, Hahn C, Vickrey BG
Location: International Psychogeriatrics, 21 Suppl 1, S44-52
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Geriatrics, Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Improving Care Coordination, Case Management, and Linkages to Service for Young Children: Opportunities for States
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Discusses how states can improve primary care coordination for children. Identifies five main barriers and offers strategies states can use to overcome them.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Johnson K, Rosenthal J
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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Michigan Department of Community Health 2008 Survey of Physicians: Comparison of Primary Care and Specialty Care Physicians
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Offers a tabulation of responses from a survey of Michigan's physicians which separates out responses from primary care and specialty physicians who are actively practicing. Covers demographics, rural or urban practice location, whether they are an MD or DO, and more.
Organizations: Michigan Department of Community Health, Michigan Healthcare Workforce Center
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Michigan, Physicians, Primary Care
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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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Remaking Primary Care: From Crisis to Opportunity
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Highlights the causes of primary care issues, and identifies innovations that could enhance the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of primary care. Discusses issues related to changes required in health professional education.
Organizations: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, NEHI
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses
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Solutions to the Challenges Facing Primary Care Medicine: Comprehensive Strategies from the American College of Physicians
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Discusses challenges facing primary care and recommends policies for meeting those challenges. Examines workforce issues, student debt load, and compensation.
Organization: American College of Physicians
Author: Zerehi MR
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Student Debt Load, Supply and Demand
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Some Factors Impacting Osteopathic Medical School Graduates' Specialty Selection -- A Preliminary Exploration of Recent Historical Data
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Summarizes factors affecting osteopathic medical students' choice of specialty, with a focus on primary care.
Organization: American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
Author: Levitan T, Shannon SC
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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STFM Podcasts: Episode 7, Dr. Amy McGaha
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Additional Link: Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Podcast List
Offers ideas for medical student educators on how to interest their students in family medicine in a 25 minute podcast interview with Amy McGaha, MD, Assistant Division Director, Division of Medical Education for the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Organization: Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Author: McGaha A
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, National, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Addressing the Workforce Crisis in Integrated Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Discusses the shortage of mental health clinicians in primary care and the problems with integrating mental health specialists into primary care. Describes curriculum designed to help meet this challenge that can be used for a distance learning workshop.
Author: Blount FA, Miller BF
Location: Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 16(1), 113-9
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Primary Care
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An Environmental Scan of Health and Health Care in North Dakota
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Additional Links: Report Brief, Video Introduction
Provides a comprehensive overview of North Dakota's health care system and the health of its citizens. Includes a section on the health care workforce on pages 30-31 of volume 1. Volume 1 is pages 1-47 and Volume 2 is pages 48-136.
Organizations: Dakota Medical Foundation, University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health
Author: Volkov B, Gibbens B, Wakefield M
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Dentists, Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, North Dakota, Nursing Occupations, Physicians, Primary Care
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Expanding Access, Improving Outcomes: The Essential Role of Primary Care
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Discusses the need for primary care and primary care providers, the role hospitals and health systems play, and the need for legislative support in New York state. Overviews primary care programs in the state.
Organization: Healthcare Association of New York State
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, New York, Primary Care
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Improving Mental Health Services in Primary Care: Reducing Administrative and Financial Barriers to Access and Collaboration
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Identifies key issues for pediatricians and psychiatrists related to improving access to mental health services for children and adolescents. Highlights the increase in primary care physicians seeing people with mental health needs, the shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists, and care coordination.
Organizations: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Academy of Pediatrics
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, General Pediatricians, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Psychiatrists
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Primary Care Access: An Essential Building Block of Health Reform
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Examines primary care and why it should be a foundation of health care reform effort. Includes discussion on Community Health Centers.
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Reform, National, Primary Care
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Primary Care's Ecologic Impact on Obesity
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Discusses relationship between primary care physician density and obesity rates.
Author: Gaglioti A, Petterson SM, Bazemore AW, Phillips RL Jr, Dodoo MS, Zhang X
Location: American Family Physician, 79(6), 446
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Psychologists and Primary Care Physicians: A Training Model for Creating Collaborative Relationships
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Link: Abstract
Describes the importance and benefits integrated care models. Describes a training model where psychologists are trained in working in a primary care setting.
Author: Bluestein D, Cubic BA
Location: Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 16(1), 101-12
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Interprofessional Training and Education, Primary Care, Psychologists, Virginia
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Reforming Provider Payment: Essential Building Block for Health Reform
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Examines the Commonwealth Fund Commission's payment reform recommendations that seek to support primary care, improve care coordination, and make primary care a more attractive choice for physicians, partially through an increase in Medicaid payments.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Guterman S, Davis K, Schoen C, Stremikis K
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Health Reform, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Specialty and Geographic Distribution of the Physician Workforce: What Influences Medical Student & Resident Choices?
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Identifies factors that medical students and residents consider when choosing medical specialties and location of practice, including debt load, family medicine, and those in rural and underserved populations.
Organizations: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, Robert Graham Center
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Rural, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load
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Starting a Practice: Critical Economic Decisions Associated with Locating and Operating a Rural Primary Care Practice
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Discusses important considerations for physicians interested in opening their own practice. Describes how to estimate income for a medical service area.
Organizations: National Center for Rural Health Works, Oklahoma State University Center for Rural Health
Author: Eilrich FC, Doeksen GA, St. Clair CF
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, Oklahoma, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Workforce Crisis: Time for Talk is Over
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Discusses health workforce shortage issues.
Organization: Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative
Location: Eye on Health: Review & Commentary on Health Policy Issues for a Rural Perspective
Date: 2/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand
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Access for All Wisconsin: Strategies for Increasing Access to Primary Health Care
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Outlines strategies to access primary health care services including strengthening existing community health centers, building a workforce, and growing for the future.
Organization: Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association
Date: 1/2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Primary Care, Wisconsin
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Delaware's Pediatricians 2008
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Provides detailed statistics on pediatricians in Delaware, including the number in each county; their gender, race, age; Medicaid acceptance; wait times; location of their residency; and more. Identifies the number of primary care physicians per county for the state. Includes the survey instrument used.
Organization: University of Delaware Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research
Author: Toth T
Date: 1/2009
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Tagged keywords: Delaware, Diversity, General Pediatricians, Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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Health Workforce Shortage Study Report: Report to the Minnesota Legislature 2009
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Provides an overview of Minnesota's primary care workforce. Discusses health care homes and primary care. Compares the state's licensing and regulatory environment to other states and nationally.
Organization: Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Date: 1/2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Midwives, Minnesota, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Scope of Practice, Supply and Demand
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Michigan Physician Profile
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Provides information on physicians in Michigan. Covers the number providing patient care, demographics, primary care supply, education and training, the supply and demand forecast, and factors affecting physician supply and demand. Identifies the specialties likely to face the greatest shortages in the state.
Organization: Michigan Health Council
Date: 1/2009
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Michigan, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Supply and Demand
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Montana Primary Care Physician Workforce Study
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Identifies primary care physician shortages in Montana, in which counties these shortages exist, and what primary care specialties are most needed.
Organization: Montana State University
Author: Stenseth A
Date: 1/2009
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Tagged keywords: Montana, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Shortage Designations
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Primary and Preventive Healthcare: A Critical Path to Healthcare Reform for Florida
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Addresses health reform and Florida's primary care safety net. Reviews the literature on primary care. Examines the state's health care access, health care quality, and safety net providers.
Organizations: Florida Association of Community Health Centers, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Author: Rosenbaum S, Shin P, Finnegan B, Whittington R
Date: 1/2009
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Florida, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Policy, Primary Care
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States Face Shortages of Primary Care Doctors
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Additional Link: Audio
Transcript of a January 6, 2009 report on the role of primary care in health care, the shortage of primary care providers, and factors that influence whether physicians choose to practice primary care.
Author: Bowser BA
Location: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Date: 1/2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Supply and Demand
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9th Annual Report to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the United States Congress - Interprofessional Education and Practice with Implications for Primary Care in Healthcare Reform
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Discusses challenges related to implementing interprofessional education and to support health reform. Offers strategies for addressing those challenges based on a literature review. Provides recommendations to advance interprofessional training.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary Community-Based Linkages
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Health Reform, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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AAFP Annual Report on the National Resident Matching Program: 2009
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Includes the number of applicants to graduate medical programs for the 2009-10 academic year, specialty choice, and trends in specialty selection.
Organization: American Academy of Family Physicians
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Adolescent Depression: Evaluating Pediatric Residents' Knowledge, Confidence, and Interpersonal Skills Using Standardized Patients
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Link: Abstract
Highlights the importance of pediatricians' ability to diagnose major depressive disorder and how standardized patients can teach and assess pediatricians' skills in this area.
Author: Lewy C, Sells CW, Gilhooly J, McKelvey R
Location: Academic Psychiatry, 33(5), 389-93
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Education and Training, General Pediatricians, National, Primary Care
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Ambulatory Specialist Use by Nonhospitalized Patients in US Health Plans: Correlates and Consequences
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Link: Abstract
Examines the relationship between primary care physician use and specialist use. Identifies a correlation between seeing more primary care physicians and specialist use, and having a general internist as a primary care physician and more specialists seen.
Author: Starfield B, Chang HY, Lemke KW, Weiner JP
Location: Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 32(3), 216-25
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, National, Primary Care
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Beyond Parity: Primary Care Physicians' Perspectives on Access to Mental Health Care
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Link: Abstract
Reports on a study of primary care physicians on mental health care access. Discusses shortage of providers as one of the reasons for patients not receiving outpatient services.
Author: Cunningham PJ
Location: Health Affairs, 28(3):w490-501
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Health Care Access, National, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Compendium of Best Practices/Models that Work in Rural Workforce Development
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Includes examples of best practices for developing the health workforce from various states.
Organization: National Rural Health Association
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Alaska, Arizona, Best Practices and Model Programs, Dental Occupations, Interprofessional Training and Education, Montana, New Mexico, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, South Carolina, West Virginia
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Confronting the Growing Burden of Chronic Disease: Can the U.S. Health Care Workforce Do the Job?
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Additional Link: Abstract
Supports an interdisciplinary primary care workforce to prepare for the increase in chronic disease.
Author: Bodenheimer T, Chen E, Bennett HD
Location: Health Affairs, 28(1), 64-74
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Community Health Workers, National, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Public Health, Registered Nurses
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Delegating Work in Primary Care: A False Ideal?
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Link: Abstract
Details how dividing work processes among various types of support staff reduces the productivity and profitability of primary care practices.
Author: Dobson G, Pinker EJ
Location: Journal of Medical Practice Management, 25(3), 173-6
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Do International Medical Graduates (IMGs) Fill the Gap in Rural Primary Care in the United States? A National Study
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Link: Abstract
Compares the practice locations of international medical graduates (IMGs) and U.S. medical graduates (USMGs) in primary care specialties.
Organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Author: Thompson MJ, Hagopian A, Fordyce MA, Hart LG
Location: Journal of Rural Health, 25(2), 124-34
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Immigration, International Medical Graduates, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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Doctoral-Level Programs Prepare Nurses for Expanded Roles in Care and Research
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Link: Abstract
Offers perspectives related to the increase in doctor of nursing practice (DNP) programs, including points of controversy.
Author: Kuehn BM
Location: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(19), 2075-2078
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care
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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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From the Field: Examples of Primary Care and Behavioral Healthcare Integration
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Presents case studies of behavioral health and primary care integration. Includes descriptions and contact information.
Organization: National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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How do Race and Sex Affect the Earnings of Primary Care Physicians?
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Link: Abstract
Reports on income differences for primary care physicians based on demographics. Identifies addressing gender income gaps as a priority as more women enter the physician workforce.
Author: Weeks WB, Wallace TA, Wallace AE
Location: Health Affairs, 28(2), 557-66
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Diversity, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Map of Counties With the Majority of Primary Care Providers of a Single Type, 2009
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Provides a map that categorizes counties by the type of provider serving as the majority source of primary care. Includes primary care MDs, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Author: Stange K
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care
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Map of the Number of Physician Assistants Per Primary Care Doctor by County, 2009
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Provides a map that categorizes counties by the number of physician assistants per primary care MD.
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Author: Stange K
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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A Medical Assistant–Based Program to Promote Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care
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Additional Link: Supplemental Data: Tables & Figure
Reports on a study where medical assistants identified and referred patients with risky behaviors. Concludes that involving more primary care team members in addressing risky behaviors improved referral rates.
Author: Ferrer RL, Mody-Bailey P, Jaén CR, Gott S, Araujo S
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 7(6), 504-512
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, Medical Assistants, Primary Care, Texas
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A New Home for People with Serious Mental Illnesses
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Discusses the Person-Centered Healthcare Home and its provisions for behavioral health care integration.
Organization: National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
Author: Mauer BJ
Location: National Council Magazine
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, National, Primary Care
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New Jersey Physician Workforce Task Force Report
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Examines New Jersey's physician workforce, pipeline, and supply in depth. Offers projections for demand and recommendations. Identifies current and future physician shortages by specialty. Includes county profiles and national benchmark data for physician population ratios in the appendix. Provides examples of health workforce initiatives in other states.
Organization: New Jersey Council of Teaching Hospitals
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Best Practices and Model Programs, California, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Georgia, Illinois, International Medical Graduates, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Supply and Demand, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin
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Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care
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Provides an overview of nurse practitioners (NPs), including their history, education, scope of practice, prescriptive authority, and reimbursement, and acknowledges their contributions to primary care. States the position of the American College of Physicians in relation to nurse practitioners in primary care.
Organization: American College of Physicians
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Nurse Practitioners, Primary Care
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The Paradox of Primary Care
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Examines several studies that focus on the quality of care provided by primary care versus specialty physicians.
Author: Stange KC, Ferrer RL
Location: Annals of Family Medicine, 7(4), 293-299
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, National, Primary Care
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Pharmacists in Primary Care Practices and Clinics
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Reviews the literature on pharmacist care in primary care facilities through an annotated bibliography. Includes lists of presentations and contacts.
Organization: American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, National, Pharmacists, Primary Care
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Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners as a Usual Source of Care
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Link: Abstract
Examines the characteristics and outcomes of patients who use nonphysician practitioners as their primary care providers.
Author: Everett CM, Schumacher JR, Wright A, Smith MA
Location: Journal of Rural Health, 25(4), 407-14
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Wisconsin
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The Political Economy of U.S. Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Examines the political factors that contributed to the decline of primary care in the US. Offers recommendations for increasing the number of primary care providers.
Author: Sandy LG, Bodenheimer T, Pawlson LG, Starfield B
Location: Health Affairs, 28(4), 1136-45
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, National, Policy, Primary Care
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Primary Care Is in Crisis: A Four-Part White Paper Series
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Discusses challenges facing primary care with a focus on Michigan. Addresses the primary care workforce in section four. Covers educational capacity, interdisciplinary training, and recruitment and retention. Offers recommendations for the state.
Author: Michigan Primary Care Consortium
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Michigan, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand
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Promoting Cultural and Linguistic Competency: Self-Assessment Checklist
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Additional Links: Behavioral Health Care Self-Assessment Checklist, Primary Care Self-Assessment Checklist
Provides two checklists for primary care and behavioral health care providers to use in self-assessing their level of cultural competency.
Organization: National Center for Cultural Competence
Author: Goode TD
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, National, Primary Care
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Quality-Based Payment for Medical Groups and Individual Physicians
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Links: Abstract, Highlights
Examines how frequently quality and patient satisfaction indicators determine medical group, primary care, and specialist compensation.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Robinson JC, Shortell SM, Rittenhouse DR, Fernandes-Taylor S, Gillies RR, Casalino LP
Location: Inquiry Summer, 46(2), 172–81
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Reforming Physician Payments to Achieve Greater Value in Health Care Spending
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Discusses physician compensation especially as it relates to interest in primary care. Provides recommendations on how to reform physician payments; a position paper from the American College of Physicians.
Organization: American College of Physicians
Author: Baker B, Doherty R
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Reform, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Reimbursement and Workforce Issues Hamper Medical Home Implementation
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Addresses issues facing medical homes such as the declining number of primary care providers available to coordinate the patient's care and the lower-level reimbursements to primary care providers.
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, National, Primary Care
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Remarks to the Healthcare Workforce Crisis: A Summit on the Future of Primary Care in Rural and Urban America
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Offers a transcript of a speech by HRSA's administrator, Mary K. Wakefield. Discusses the health care workforce crisis, the Recovery Act, and HRSA's activities.
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Primary Care, Rural
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The Renewal of Primary Health Care in the Americas No. 2, Medical Education for Primary Health Care
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Addresses how to train students for primary care. Reports on current medical education in the Americas, shares best practices, and promotes discussion. Offers recommendations from the "Meeting on Primary Health Care-Oriented Medical Education" held in Brazil, July 2008.
Organization: Pan American Health Organization
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, International, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Vermont Rural Health and Primary Care Plan
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Identifies goals, objectives, and activities related to Vermont's rural health and primary care services. Covers the state's health workforce, rural health infrastructure, health care disparities, technology, and more.
Organization: Vermont Department of Health
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Policy, Primary Care, Rural, Vermont
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What Does It Cost Physician Practices to Interact with Health Insurance Plans?
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Links: Abstract, Highlights
Examines how much time physicians spend on health insurance. Compares the time spent by primary care physicians to other specialists.
Author: Casalino LP, Nicholson S, Gans DN, Hammons T, Morra D, Karrison T, Levinson W
Location: Health Affairs, 28(4):w533-43.
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Would Having More Primary Care Doctors Cut Health Spending Growth?
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Examines the relationship between market-level Medicare spending growth and the proportion of primary care physicians between 1995 and 2005.
Organization: Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
Author: Chernew ME, Sabik L, Chandra A, Newhouse JP
Location: Health Affairs, 28(5), 1327-35
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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7th Annual Report to the Secretary DHHS and to Congress: Coming Home: The Patient-Centered Medical-Dental Home in Primary Care Training
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Provides recommendations regarding the Patient-Centered Medical and Dental Home (PCM-DH) to serve as this new primary care practice environment. Defines the key role that Title VII, section 747 must play in its development and implementation.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Dentists, Education and Training, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Collaborative Scopes of Care Study
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Additional Link: Executive Summary
Analyzes scope of practice for advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, and dental hygienists to determine whether they can help relieve the shortage of primary care providers in Colorado's underserved areas. Studies issues related to these professions. Considers using certified registered nurse anesthetists in independent practice settings. Includes a literature review.
Organization: Colorado Health Institute
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Colorado, Dental Hygienists, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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Connecting Body and Mind: A Resource Guide to Integrated Health Care in Texas and the United States
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Discusses the integration of primary care and behavioral health treatment. Addresses the barriers to coordination of care between providers. Highlights the challenges and successes with care integration in Texas.
Organization: Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Author: Lopez M, Coleman-Beattie B, Jahnke L, Sanchez K,
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Occupations, Care Coordination, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Texas
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Physician Workforce: Core Specialties
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Examines the supply and distribution of physicians in Georgia with detailed information on physician specialties. Includes demographics of physicians accepting Medicaid and Medicare. Contains state maps showing physician supply by county and detailed charts with primary care supply for each county in Georgia.
Organization: Georgia Board for Physician Workforce
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: Georgia, Medicare and Medicaid, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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The Remuneration of General Practitioners and Specialists in 14 OECD Countries: What Are the Factors Influencing Variations across Countries?
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Examines how physicians are compensated in 14 countries, including the United States. Compares specialists and primary care physician income across countries. Analyzes factors that may explain variations such as hours worked.
Organization: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Author: Fujisawa R, Lafortune G
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, International, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Trends and Emerging Issues
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The Role of Physicians in Children’s Oral Health
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Includes information on state Medicaid programs that provide oral health services for young children. Identifies the states that provide reimbursement for primary care physician oral health services through Medicaid.
Organization: National Academy for State Health Policy
Author: Cantrell C
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: Dental Occupations, Health Care Access, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Short Report: Factors that Affect Specialty Choice and Career Plans of Wisconsin's Medical Students
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Reports on a survey of Wisconsin medical students to determine what affects their choice of specialty. Identifies factors that lead students to choose primary care.
Author: Knox KE, Getzin A, Bergum A, McBride P, Rieselbach R, Friedsam D
Location: WMJ, 107(8), 369-73
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice, Student Debt Load, Wisconsin
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Study: Many Doctors Would Prefer Another Profession
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Provides an eight-minute interview on National Public Radio with Dr. Sydney Spiesel on the results of a primary care physician survey on what they like and do not like about their profession.
Author: Brand M
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Task Force on Health Care Access and Reimbursement: Final Report and Recommendations
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Additional Link: Addendum
Examines physician workforce issues and policies intended to address them with a focus on Maryland. Identifies characteristics of physician practices in Maryland, overviews projected shortages for physicians and other primary care providers, and discusses variations in physician compensation by specialty. Includes a section on the need to improve physician supply data.
Organization: Maryland Health Care Commission
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Maryland, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Wyoming Primary Care Gaps and Policy Options
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Provides an overview of Wyoming's primary care workforce, discusses what other states have done to improve their primary care workforce, and recommends policies.
Organizations: WWAMI Center for Health Workforce Studies, Wyoming Healthcare Commission
Author: Skillman SM, Andrilla CH, Doescher MP, Robinson BJ
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Wyoming
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Academic Medicine November 2008: History of the Title VII Section 747 Grant Programs, 1963-2008
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Thematic issue on the history and impact of the Title VII, Section 747 health professions training programs.
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Diversity, Education and Training, Faculty, National, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Minutes of Meeting - November 17-18, 2008
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Addresses chronic care, physician assistant trends, pediatric residency redesign, a supply and demand model, the patient-centered medical-dental home, and Title VII, section 747. Discusses recommendations for the 7th and 8th annual reports.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Dentists, General Pediatricians, National, Physician Assistants, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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The American Medical Student Association's Contributions to Advancing Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Discusses several American Medical Student Association (AMSA) programs developed with Title VII funding: National Primary Care Week; Generalist Physicians in Training; Leadership Seminar Series; Achieving Diversity in Dentistry and Medicine; and Promoting, Reinforcing, and Improving Medical Education. Highlights the impact of these programs and the effects of decreased funding.
Organization: American Medical Student Association
Author: Hedgecock J, Steyer TE
Location: Academic Medicine, 83(11):1057-9
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Dental Occupations, Diversity, Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Disappearing Primary Care Physician
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Discusses physicians' choices to become specialists rather than primary care physicians and what might be done to address this trend. Includes examples from several states.
Author: Meyer H
Location: Hospitals & Health Networks, 82(11):28-32, 1
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: California, Colorado, National, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care
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Evaluating Title VII Investments in Primary Care Training: Drop in the Ocean, Or Levee Against the Flood?
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Link: Abstract
Discusses the Title VII primary care programs and a recent Office of Management and Budget (OMB) report on the Title VII health professions programs. Part of a theme issue of Academic Medicine on the Title VII health professions training programs.
Author: Rich EC, Mullan F
Location: Academic Medicine, 83(11):1002-3
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care
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Insurers' Contracting Policies on Nurse Practitioners as Primary Care Providers: Two Years Later
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Link: Abstract
Reports on a survey of managed care and reimbursement policy barriers to nurse-managed health centers.
Author: Hansen-Turton T, Ritter A, Torgan R
Location: Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 9(4), 241-8
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, National, Nurse Practitioners, Policy, Primary Care
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Learning from History: The Legacy of Title VII in Academic Family Medicine
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Link: Abstract
Reviews 30 years of experience with the Title VII, Section 747 Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry (Title VII) grant program. Discusses Title VII as it relates to family medicine. Part of a theme issue of Academic Medicine on the Title VII health professions training programs.
Author: Newton W, Arndt JE
Location: Academic Medicine, 83(11):1030-8
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, Financial Aid, National, Primary Care
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A Legislative History of Federal Assistance for Health Professions Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry in the United States, 1963-2008
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Link: Abstract
Reviews the legislative history of Title VII of the United States Public Health Service Act from 1963 to the present. Describes changes in program emphasis and providers included in Title VII.
Author: Reynolds PP
Location: Academic Medicine, 83(11):1004-14
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Dentists, Education and Training, National, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Perspective: The Future of Primary Care
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Comprised of six different perspectives on the crisis in U.S. primary care. Also includes a roundtable discussion of the problems and potential solutions for training, practice, compensation, and systemic change.
Author: Lee T, Treadway K, Bodenheimer T, Goroll A, Starfield B, Roland M
Location: New England Journal of Medicine, 359(20), 2085-2086
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care Physician Supply, Physician Compensation, and Medicare Fees: What Is the Connection?
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Focuses attention on the adequacy of primary care physician supply and ways to boost access to primary care.
Organization: National Health Policy Forum
Author: Dummit, LA
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Providing Culturally Competent Care: Residents in HRSA Title VII Funded Residency Programs Feel Better Prepared
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Link: Abstract
Determines whether primary care residents in Title VII-funded training programs feel better prepared than those in non-funded programs to provide care to culturally diverse patients.
Author: Green AR, Betancourt JR, Park ER, Greer JA, Donahue EJ, Weissman JS
Location: Academic Medicine, 83(11):1071-9
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Cultural and Linguistic Competence, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Title VII and the Development and Promotion of National Initiatives in Training Primary Care Clinicians in the United States
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Link: Abstract
Details how Title VII has built collaboration, supported new primary care training models, and enhanced the quality of primary care training in specific disease areas.
Author: Davis AK, Reynolds PP, Kahn NB Jr, Sherwood RA, Pascoe JM, Goroll AH, Wilson ME, DeWitt TG, Rich EC
Location: Academic Medicine, 83(11):1021-9
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Title VII Innovations in American Medical and Dental Education: Responding to 21st Century Priorities for the Health of the American Public
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Link: Abstract
Discusses three periods of Title VII funding and focuses on current grantee work: clinical skills and practice improvement, care of underserved and vulnerable populations, and interdisciplinary models of patient care and training.
Author: Reynolds PP
Location: Academic Medicine, 83(11):1015-20
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Health Care Access, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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Two Decades of Title VII Support of a Primary Care Residency: Process and Outcomes
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Link: Abstract
Examines the New York University/Bellevue Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program (Bellevue/NYU PC Program), which has received Title VII funding from 1984 to 2007, and its contributions to primary care education, clinical quality, and service.
Author: Lipkin M, Zabar SR, Kalet AL, Laponis R, Kachur E, Anderson M, Gillespie CC
Location: Academic Medicine, 83(11), 1064-70
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: General Internal Medicine Physicians, New York, Primary Care, Residency Programs
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When There Is No Doctor: Reasons for the Disappearance of Primary Care Physicians in the US During the Early 21st Century
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Identifies six reasons primary care doctors may become rare by 2025.
Author: McKinlay J, Marceau L
Location: Social Science & Medicine, 67(10), 1481-91
Date: 11/2008
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care
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How is a Shortage of Primary Care Physicians Affecting the Quality and Cost of Medical Care? A Comprehensive Evidence Review
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Discusses trends in the primary care workforce. Summarizes evidence on the physician shortage and how physicians improve health care quality. Includes an annotated literature review of 109 documents.
Organization: American College of Physicians
Author: Zerehi MR
Date: 10/2008
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Integration of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and Primary Care
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Describes how mental health services can be integrated into primary care, barriers, and use of reimbursement structures and health information technology.
Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Author: Butler M, Kane RL, McAlpine D, Kathol, RG, Fu SS, Hagedorn H, Wilt TJ
Date: 10/2008
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Interprofessional Training and Education, National, Primary Care
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International Exchange Programs and U.S. Medical Schools
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Link: Abstract
Describes international programs available through U.S. allopathic medical schools. Identifies studies correlating participation in international programs to primary care choice, interest in public health, and likelihood of working in an underserved area.
Author: McKinley DW, Williams SR, Norcini JJ, Anderson MB
Location: Academic Medicine, 83(10 Suppl), S53-7
Date: 10/2008
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Losing the Linchpin. The Uncertain Future of Primary Care
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Link: Abstract
Discusses the supply of primary care physicians.
Author: Friedman E
Location: Trustee, 61(9):12-5, 1
Date: 10/2008
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Maine Barriers to Integration Study: Environmental Scan
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Reports on an environmental scan of barriers to integrating health care services in Maine. Reviews the literature, analyzes various approaches to care integration, and examines integration initiatives in other states. Addresses reimbursement.
Organization: Maine Health Access Foundation
Author: Gale JA, Lambert D
Date: 10/2008
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Compensation, Maine, Minnesota, Primary Care
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Primary Care Physicians in Delaware 2008
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Reports on the demographics, practice characteristics, and distribution of primary care physicians in Delaware. Includes the number per county, state of medical school graduation and residency, the percent accepting new Medicaid/Medicare patients by county, use of non-physicians, and more. Includes the survey used.
Organizations: Delaware Office of Primary Care & Rural Health, University of Delaware Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research
Author: Toth T
Date: 10/2008
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Tagged keywords: Delaware, Medicare and Medicaid, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Projecting the Need for Medical Education in Texas: A Report to the Texas Legislature
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Discusses the current state of medical education in Texas and projects state needs for the physician workforce. Provides data on students and the workforce including demographics, distribution, retention, and more. Compares Texas data to nine other states.
Organization: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Date: 10/2008
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Tagged keywords: California, Diversity, Education and Training, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand, Texas
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Minutes of Audio Conference Meeting – September 15, 2008
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Summarizes discussions on pediatric dentistry, interprofessional education, the decrease in people going into primary care, and the dental faculty shortage. Addresses the committee's 7th and 8th annual reports.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 9/2008
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, Faculty, National, Primary Care, 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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Measuring Primary Care: The Standard Primary Care Year
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Proposes a standard primary care workforce year intended to represent the total primary care contribution for each of the five training forms of primary care over the course of a provider's career.
Author: Bowman RC
Location: Rural and Remote Health, 8(3), 1009
Date: 9/2008
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, National, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Research and Data Collection Methods, Supply and Demand
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Primary Care Reimbursement of Mental Health Services by Commercial Insurance Payers
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Analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of allowing primary care physicians to provide mental health care and be reimbursed for these services. Offers policy recommendations.
Organization: Maryland Health Care Commission
Date: 9/2008
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Compensation, Health Care Access, Maryland, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Primary Care Shortage Data Reveal Some Surprises
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Examines the percentage of designated primary care shortage regions accepting all new patients versus high populations and poor areas. Hypothesizes the reasons for the study's findings.
Location: Internal Medicine News, 43 (8), 1426-31
Date: 9/2008
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care, Shortage Designations, Supply and Demand
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Rural Integrative Care Planning in Sullivan County, New Hampshire: Rural Integrative Best Practices
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Reviews the literature on integrated care in rural areas and identifies best practices. Defines integrated care as a primary care practice that provides medical and behavioral health services.
Organization: Endowment for Health
Author: Goranson A, Fauth J, Phillips M
Date: 9/2008
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health Occupations, Best Practices and Model Programs, New Hampshire, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural
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The Disappearing Family Doctor
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Offers a twenty-five minute radio program on the shortage of primary care physicians. Includes input from David Taylor of the National Association of Community Health Centers and Robert Barish from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Author: Fuentes J
Date: 8/2008
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Health Care Equity, Access, Poverty, and Workforce Diversity
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Discusses socio-economic factors related to health care access and equity. Focuses on the role of physicians in reducing disparities. From a series of papers presented at the 11th International Medical Workforce Collaborative.
Author: Coombs AT
Date: 8/2008
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Tagged keywords: Diversity, Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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A Process and Outcome Evaluation of Two Integrated Behavioral Health Care Models: People’s Community Clinic and Lone Star Circle of Care, Year-Two Report
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Describes two behavioral health care programs that coordinate mental health services with primary care providers.
Organization: St. David's Community Health Foundation
Author: Watt T
Date: 8/2008
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Clinics, Primary Care, Texas
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Alabama Rural Health Plan
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Examines health status indicators in rural Alabama. Includes the number of actively practicing primary care physicians in Alabama by age. Identifies the number of primary care physicians, dentists, and psychiatrists per 10,000 people in Alabama for each county on page 81.
Organization: Alabama Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
Date: 7/2008
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Dentists, Physicians, Primary Care, Psychiatrists, Rural, Supply and Demand
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Changes in U.S. Medical Students' Specialty Interests over the Course of Medical School
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Examines the change in students' specialty choices during medical school. Identifies greater attrition for those initially interested in primary care.
Author: Compton MT, Frank E, Elon L, Carrera J
Location: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23(7), 1095-100
Date: 7/2008
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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Mayor's Task Force on Improving Access to Primary Care in Boston: Final Report
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Offers specific recommendations, examples, and a timeframe for improving access to primary care in Boston. Supports the use of non-physician clinicians, reducing chronic disease, financial incentives to recruit people into primary care and to support initiatives like care coordination, and establishing a primary care task force to monitor and improve access.
Date: 7/2008
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Health Care Access, Massachusetts, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention
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Paying for Physician Care in Maryland: What Are the Factors Contributing to Differences Across Specialties
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Examines differences in physician reimbursement across specialties in Maryland and what causes these variations. Focuses on primary care versus other specialties.
Organization: Maryland Health Care Commission
Date: 7/2008
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Tagged keywords: Maryland, Physicians, Primary Care
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Assessing Health and Health Care in the District of Columbia: Phase 2 Report
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Reports on further analysis of the District of Columbia's health care system. Offers policy recommendations related to health care access, emergency care, and health care capacity. Identifies shortages of primary care providers.
Organization: Rand Corporation
Author: Lurie N, Gresenz CR, Siegel B, Regenstein M
Date: 6/2008
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Tagged keywords: District of Columbia, Health Care Access, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Critical Shortage of Physicians and Nurses Projected for Indiana
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Addresses registered nurses and primary care physician supply and demand projections for Indiana through 2020. Identifies the number of primary care providers in each county in the state. Discusses issues related to distribution. Includes maps.
Organization: Indiana Center for Health Policy
Date: 6/2008
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, General Surgeons, Health Care Access, Indiana, Nursing Occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Physicians, Primary Care, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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Physician Effects on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patients’ Experiences of Primary Care
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Compares disparities caused by minority patients clustered in low performing practices to those attributable to physicians. Reports on a survey of primary care practices in California using five measures of care.
Organization: The Commonwealth Fund
Author: Rodriguez HP, von Glahn T, Grembowski DE, Rogers WH, Safran DG
Location: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23(10), 1666–72
Date: 6/2008
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Tagged keywords: California, Health Care Access, Physicians, Primary Care
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Primary Care: Foundation for an Evidence-Based Health System
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Supports reforming primary care physician payments to improve health care quality. Identifies questions for health plans to consider, discusses payment options, and lists resources on the topic.
Organization: Global Health Benefits Institute
Author: National Committee on Evidence-Based Benefit Design
Date: 6/2008
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Tagged keywords: Compensation, Health Care Quality, National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Promoting the Use of Primary Care
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Supports a review of the relative value of physician services, changes to Medicare payments for primary care services, and a Medicare medical home pilot program in a report to Congress.
Organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Date: 6/2008
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, National, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Minutes of Meeting – May 7-8, 2008
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Provides committee meeting minutes. Summarizes discussions on the meetings 7th annual report regarding the medical/dental home. Addresses Title VII, section 747, primary care shortages, and the need to redesign primary care.
Organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
Date: 5/2008
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Dentists, National, Policy, Primary Care
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Language Access: Understanding the Barriers and Challenges in Primary Care Settings, Perspectives from the Field
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Discusses linguistic and cultural challenges met by health care providers and their impact on quality of care. Highlights linguistic and cultural competency barriers in primary care and underserved settings.
Organization: Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
Date: 5/2008
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Tagged keywords: Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Health Care Quality, National, Primary Care
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Physician Distribution and Access: Workforce Priorities
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Discusses how Primary Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) exceed federal population-to-physician designation criteria, yet struggle to maintain access to primary care physicians. Suggests policies for recruiting and retaining primary care physicians to HPSAs, and new HPSA criteria that support access to primary care practices.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Author: Zhang X, Phillips RL Jr, Bazemore AW, Dodoo MS, Petterson SM, Xierali I, Green LA
Date: 5/2008
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, National, Physicians, Primary Care, Shortage Designations
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Primary Care in Minnesota: An Academic Health Center's Perspective
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Describes the current status of primary care in Minnesota and ideas for addressing anticipated workforce shortages and enhancing the vitality of primary care.
Author: Brooks K, Cieslak J, Radcliffe P, Sjogren K
Date: 5/2008
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Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Minnesota, Physicians, Primary Care
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The Primary Care Paradigm Shift: An Overview of the State-Level Legal Framework Governing Nurse Practitioner Practice
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Summarizes the history of nurse practitioners and how they contribute to primary care. Provides an overview of the state-level regulatory framework that governs their practice. Addresses licensure, scope of practice, their interaction with physicians, and policy issues.
Organization: National Nursing Centers Consortium
Date: 4/2008
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Tagged keywords: Licensure and Certification, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Policy, Primary Care, Scope of Practice
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The Residency Program in Social Medicine of Montefiore Medical Center: 37 Years of Mission-Driven, Interdisciplinary Training in Primary Care, Population Health, and Social Medicine
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Link: Abstract
Describes an interdisciplinary training program that trains primary care physicians for underserved areas and community health centers.
Author: Strelnick AH, Swiderski D, Fornari A, Gorski V, Korin E, Ozuah P, Townsend JM, Selwyn PA
Location: Academic Medicine, 83(4), 378-89
Date: 4/2008
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Tagged keywords: Family Medicine Physicians, Federally Qualified Health Centers, General Internal Medicine Physicians, General Pediatricians, Interprofessional Training and Education, New York, Physicians, Primary Care
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Serving the Needs of Medicaid Enrollees with Integrated Behavioral Health Services in Safety Net Primary Care Settings
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Discusses the benefits of integrating behavioral health care into a primary care setting. Examines the behavioral health services provided by safety net primary care providers to Medicaid participants. Highlights programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Delaware, and Oklahoma.
Organization: American Public Human Services Association
Date: 4/2008
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Delaware, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Medicare and Medicaid, Michigan, National, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Primary Care
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Access Capital: New Opportunities for Meeting America's Primary Care Infrastructure Needs
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Discusses the sufficient resources needed, both in capital and workforce, to build the capacity of current and future health centers. Discusses aging buildings and facilities, lack of funding to improve these sites, and a workforce shortage that jeopardizes these health centers.
Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
Date: 3/2008
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Tagged keywords: Federally Qualified Health Centers, National, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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Provider and Clinic Cultural Competence in a Primary Care Setting
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Examines connections between cultural competence and provider characteristics. Discusses cultural competence as a method to reduce disparities in health care. Reports on a survey of providers in Baltimore, Maryland and Wilmington, Delaware.
Author: Paez KA, Allen JK, Carson KA, Cooper LA
Location: Social Science & Medicine, 66(5), 1204-16
Date: 3/2008
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Tagged keywords: Clinics, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Delaware, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Health Care Access, Maryland, Nurse Practitioners, Primary Care
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Strategies to Address the Issues of Access to New Hampshire's Primary Care Workforce: A Report to Governor John Lynch
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Summarizes primary care workforce development issues at a national and state level. Provides recommendations to address New Hampshire's primary care shortages.
Organization: New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative
Date: 3/2008
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Tagged keywords: Dentists, New Hampshire, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Supply and Demand
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2008 Health Professions Database
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Provides statistics on health professionals, including physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, dentists, and pharmacists in Wyoming. Includes data on supply, distribution, demographics, specialties, education, vacancies, and more. Includes survey instruments.
Organization: Wyoming Healthcare Commission
Date: 2/2008
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Tagged keywords: Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Diversity, Education and Training, Family Medicine Physicians, General Surgeons, Licensure and Certification, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand, Wyoming
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Addressing Healthcare Workforce Issues for the Future: Hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
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Provides the final transcript from a Senate committee hearing focused on the future supply of primary care providers. Includes statements, questions, and answers from senators, health workforce experts, and the Health Resources and Services Administration. Addresses Title VII and VIII of the Public Health Service Act.
Date: 2/2008
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Tagged keywords: Area Health Education Centers, Dentists, Diversity, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, National, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Residency Programs, Rural, Supply and Demand, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Health Care Utilization and the Proportion of Primary Care Physicians
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Link: Abstract
Reports on a study that looked at the relationship between the proportion of primary care physicians and health care utilization.
Author: Kravet SJ, Shore AD, Miller R, Green GB, Kolodner K, Wright SM
Location: American Journal of Medicine, 121(2):142-8
Date: 2/2008
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Tagged keywords: National, Physicians, Primary Care
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Compendium of Primary Care and Mental Health Integration Activities across Various Participating Federal Agencies
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Briefly describes integrated care initiatives for primary care and behavioral health care funded by federal agencies. Includes contact information.
Date: 1/2008
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Tagged keywords: Behavioral Health, Best Practices and Model Programs, Care Coordination, National, Primary Care
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Health Literacy Practices in Primary Care Settings: Examples from the Field
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