A modern report by the Robert Grah...

A modern report by the Robert Graham Center ends that the focus should be forward the quality of care provided rather than the total number of family physicians in the workforce. The report," The Physician Workforce of the United States: A Family Medicine Perspective," was chartered from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and compares previous studies, dating back to 1981 with the estimated upcoming ne for family physicians according to what is yet to be of Family Medicine project designs of care. Results of the report exhibit that the current number of family physicians is adequate to qualified demand, assuming a doctor-patient ratio of 1 to 1200 The report makes several recommendations for the events to come including revision in financial types to sustain the new mould of family medicine; increased training in family medicine residencies, focusing forward care of older and chronically ill bodily forms as well as evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention; increased number of allopathic medical students; and evaluation of workforce policies in view of the buttress placed on family physicians by dint of rural persons and other underserv populations. The replete report is available online at http://www.graham-center. org/PreBuilt/physician_workforce.pdf.

COPYRIGHT 2005 American Academy of Family Physicians

COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale Group