2008 Comparison of Primary Care and Specialty Care Physicians

Source: Michigan Dept. of Community HealthThe following tables are cross-tabulations of all the active physicians who responded the 2008 MDCH physician licensure survey broken down by whether they are primary care or specialty care physicians.

Survey of Physicians - Updated

Source: Michigan Department of Community Health

The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) conducted surveys of licensed physicians to collect data on their employment status, geographic distribution, age, plans to continue practicing, work setting, practice area, education, gender, and racial/ethnic background. These reports present the survey findings and description of the survey methodology.

Next Health Crisis: Family Doc Shortage

Source: The Detroit News

More than 1 million uninsured Michigan residents could benefit from national health care reform, but any surge in new patients could further strain...

A Profile of Michigan’s Physician Workforce 2009

This report provides current data trends on the physician population in Michigan, information regarding issues that affect the supply and demand of physicians, work patterns, cost of training, international medical graduates (IMG) issues and challenges in the delivery of healthcare. This information is being provided to help communities, healthcare employers, educators and policymakers create strategies to address physician workforce needs in Michigan.

Council on Physician and Nurse Supply

A national organization of healthcare professionals committed to addressing the challenge of Physician and Nurse supply.

Clinical Laboratory Workforce – Critical Shortage That Doesn’t Seem to Make Headlines

Source: Cindy Whittum, Michigan Health CouncilShortage concerns in healthcare have primarily centered on nursing and physicians especially here in Michigan. While these particular shortage areas continue to be very real, other professions such as...

Trends in Online Education

Source: Craig Donahue, Michigan Health CouncilWhile thinking about what to discuss in this my first article, I took what is the typical first step these days. I...

Physician Shortage Solution Number 554

Source: Deb Collier, Michigan Health Council

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article, “Medical Schools Can’t Keep Up,” describing the impending dilemma of a shortage of physicians to treat millions of...

Survey of Physician Assistants - Updated

Source: Michigan Department of Community Health

The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) conducted a survey of licensed Physician Assistants to collect data on their employment characteristics, education, and work environment. This report presents the survey findings and description of the survey methodology.

Survey of Dentists - Updated

Source: Michigan Department of Community Health

The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) asked Public Sector Consultants Inc. (PSC) to conduct a survey of licensed dentists to gather information about their employment characteristics, education, and work environment.

Survey of Dental Hygienists - Updated

Source: Michigan Department of Community Health

The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) asked Public Sector Consultants Inc. (PSC) to conduct a survey of licensed dental hygienists to gather information about their employment characteristics, education, and work environment.

Labor Market Information Resources

Department of Labor & Economic Growth
Bureau of Labor Market Information & Strategic Initiatives

Academic Pharmacy's Vital Statistics

From the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

NOW on PBS - Nurses Needed

PBS takes a hard look at the strains this crisis is placing on the entire medical system...

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners - 2008 Annual Report

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS
www.aanp.org

State Economic Impact of Medical Schools

Read these two articles regarding the impact of Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals on States.

http://www.mcw.edu/display/docid21688.htm

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/10/26/prsd1027.htm

Also... read the AAMC report below.

Doctor Shortage in U.S. Won’t Be Aided by More Medical Students

Source: Bloomberg.comTo combat a nationwide shortage of doctors, medical schools in the U.S. plan to...

National trends in the United States of America: physician assistant workforce from 1980 to 2007

The physician assistant (PA) profession is a nationally recognized medical profession in the United States of America (USA). However, relatively little is known regarding national trends...

Survey of Nurses 2009

Source: Michigan Center for Nursing

In 2009, the Michigan Center for Nursing conducted the sixth annual survey of nurses licensed in Michigan to collect data on their employment status, geographic distribution, age, plans to continue practicing, work setting, practice area, education, gender, and racial/ethnic background. The survey also includes questions related to nurses’ decisions to leave a position in nursing and the factors that led to these decisions.
Click here for the 2009 Michigan Nursing Licensure Data.

KCC Expands Nurse Program

Source: Battle Creek Enquirer

Despite subpar job prospects for this year's graduates, Kellogg Community College will increase the number of students admitted into its popular nursing program for the 2010-2011 school year...

Michigan Health Care Jobs Top Manufacturing

Source: The Detroit News

After working 31 years at Ford Motor Co. plants, William Striggles finally decided to hang up his tool belt for medical scrubs...

Talking Points from American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)

Impact of the Economy on the Nursing Shortage

Physical Therapy Workforce

Source: American Physical Therapy Association

Within the past year, there has been renewed interest among APTA members and stakeholders, including the House of Delegates, on gathering information that describes...

Mayo Clinic 'Model' at Center of Health Care Debate

Source: ABC News

Fewer Tests, Fixed Salaries for Doctors, Collaboration Cited for Clinic's Strong Results

Pharmacy Technicians in Demand

Source: The Detroit Free Press

Looking to enter health care for a lasting career with benefits?

Abstract - The Nursing Career Process From Application Through the First 2 Years of Employment

Source: Christine T. Kovner, PhD, RN, FAAN and Maja Djukic, MS, RN

The purpose of this analysis is to describe the attrition process from application to associate and baccalaureate basic RN programs through the first 2 years of work using...

Profile of Michigan's Nursing Workforce 2009

Brought to you by the Michigan Center for Nursing.

Survey of Nurses - 2008

Source: Michigan Center for NursingIn 2008, the Michigan Center for Nursing conducted the fourth annual survey of nurses licensed in Michigan to collect data on their employment status, geographic distribution, age, plans to continue practicing, work setting, practice area, education, gender, and racial/ethnic background.

Survey of Nurses 2004 - 2007

Source: Michigan Center for Nursing

Please contact the Michigan Center for Nursing at (517) 347-8091 with any questions.

Survey of Pharmacists

Source: Michigan Department of Community Health

The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) conducted a survey of licensed Pharmacists to collect data on their employment characteristics, education, and work environment. This report presents the survey findings and description of the survey methodology.

Michigan Physician Supply and Demand through 2020

Source: The Center for Health Workforce StudiesThis report presents an analysis of the current physician workforce and forecasts of the future physician workforce in Michigan. It provides forecasts of the supply of and demand for physicians throughout the state by specialty through 2020.

What Can Michigan's Medical Schools Do About the Physician Shortage?

Source: Blue Ribbon Physician Workforce CommitteeThe four medical schools (Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, and Wayne State University Medical School) are already at work to increase the number of physicians trained in Michigan and...

What Can Michigan Policymakers Do About the Physician Shortage?

Source: Blue Ribbon Physician Workforce CommitteeThe Blue Ribbon Physician Workforce Committee asks policymakers to assist us in making Michigan a more attractive practice location for new physicians...

What Can Federal Policymakers Do About Michigan's Physician Shortage?

Source: Blue Ribbon Physician Workforce CommitteeThe Blue Ribbon Physician Workforce Committee asks federal policymakers to support efforts to educate an appropriate physician workforce...

Clinical Laboratory Practitioners - General Information

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Clinical Laboratory Practitioners - Education

• Beck, Susan, and Rebecca Laudicina. 2001. Mentoring Tomorrow’s Leaders in Education. Clinical Laboratory Science 14(1): 38–44.

"Directors of accredited clinical laboratory science and technician programs were surveyed regarding faculty hiring. Among all program directors, 36% reported difficulty in hiring. This figure reached 53% among university program directors due to the need to hire faculty with advanced degrees faculty."

Clinical Laboratory Practitioners - Workplace

•  Beck, Susan, and Kathy Doig. 2005. Laboratory Managers’ Views on Attrition and Retention of Laboratory Personnel. Clinical Laboratory Science 18(4):238–47.

• Doig, Kathy, and Susan Beck. 2004. Factors Contributing to the Retention of Clinical Laboratory Personnel. Clinical Laboratory Science 18(1):16–27.

Dental Hygienists - General Information

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Dental Hygienists - Education

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Dental Hygienists - Workplace

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Dentists - General Information

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Dentists - Education

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Dentists - Workplace

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Occupational Therapists - General Information

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Occupational Therapists - Education

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Occupational Therapists - Workplace

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Pharmacists - General Information

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Pharmacists - Education

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Pharmacists - Workplace

• Cooksey, Judith A., Katherine K. Knapp, Surrey M. Walton, and James M. Cultice. September/October 2002. Challenges to the Pharmacist Profession from Escalating Pharmaceutical Demand. Health Affairs 21 (5): 182–88. [Online, accessed 9/26/06.]

Available: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/21/5/182
This article discusses the effect that unexpected growth in medication use has had on demand for pharmacists and responses to the increased need. It also examines the need to address barriers, particularly in community and retail pharmacies, to improve the medication-use process.

• Schommer, Jon C., Craig A. Pedersen, William R. Doucette, Caroline A. Gaither, et al. May-June 2002. Community Pharmacists’ Work Activities in the United States during 2000. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 42(3):399–406.

The objectives of this study are “to describe community pharmacists’ work activities in the United States during 2000 and to investigate the effects of position, pharmacy type, and prescription volume on work activities.”

Physical Therapists - Education

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Physical Therapists - Workplace

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Physical Therapists - General Information

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Physician Assistants - General Information

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Physician Assistants - Education

• Opacic, Deborah A. 2003. The relationship between self-efficacy and student physician assistant clinical performance. Journal of Allied Health 32(3): 158–66.

“The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive relationship between student self-efficacy beliefs, achievement expectations, perceived outcome values, and subsequent clinical performance.”

• Whitman, Neal, and William Wilson. 2002. Evaluation of a Model Clinical Therapeutics Curriculum for Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Education in the United States. Pharmacy Education 1(3): 141–44.

This article addresses the findings of a consortium formed to construct a clinical therapeutic model curriculum in response to the “broadly increased prescription privileges of physician assistants and nurse practitioners in the United States, and the need for training programs to effectively teach and document the competencies of their students in clinical therapeutics.”

Radiologic Technologists - General Information

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Radiologic Technologists - Education

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Radiologic Technologists - Workplace

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Respiratory Therapists - General Information

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Respiratory Therapists - Education

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Respiratory Therapists - Workplace

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Profile of U.S. Health Workforce

Source: The Center for Health Workforce StudiesA report from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Albany's School of Public Health compiles 2004 data on the supply, distribution and education of nurses, physicians and other health care workers by state, to provide a profile of the U.S. health care workforce. "Access to care, quality of care, and costs of care are all affected by the availability of properly educated and trained workers," said co-author and Center Director Jean Moore. "Our goal with this report is to present a wide array of data on the health workforce to help state planners and policymakers better understand and address critical health workforce issues."

Nursing Education Programs: School Year Reports

Source: Michigan Center for NursingSurvey of Nursing Education Programs. These reports include data on the types of programs offered, their enrollment capacity, number of graduates, demographic information on students and faculty, and issues affecting program capacity.

Specialty and Geographic Distribution of the Physician Workforce: What Influences Medical Student and Resident Choices?

There is increasing interest in assuring sustaining healing relationships through primary care. Yet, the U.S. does not actively influence the number, type, or geographic distribution of its physician workforce. Current difficulties in access to primary care physicians are due most acutely to the specialty and practice location choices made by physicians-in-training and not to an underproduction of physicians. Solving the poor distribution of physicians will require understanding of the factors that influence students’ choices. With the generous support of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, the Graham Center and critical partners have completed the most comprehensive study of the factors affecting student and resident choices over the last 30 years. The report, Specialty and Geographic Distribution of the Physician Workforce: What Influences Medical Student and Resident Choices? shows the wide difference between specialty and primary care incomes to be particularly devastating for producing a more balanced workforce. There are also many factors in the hands of medical schools that could offset market effects. The report identifies the factors affecting student and resident choices and provides options for increasing choice of primary care and rural or underserved practice location.

The Future of Michigan's Dental Workforce

Source: American Dental AssociationPresented by the American Dental Association.

Making Sense of the System: How States Can Use Health Workforce Policies to Increase Access and Improve Quality of Care

Source: Edward SalsbergA co-publication of the Milbank Memorial Fund and the Reforming States Group

Strategies to Address Shortages in the Health Professions

Prepared by: Public Sector Consultants Inc.