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Richard A Cooper

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Economic and demographic trends signal an impending physician shortage.

It is widely believed that the United States is producing too many physicians. We have approached this issue by developing a new model for workforce planning based on assessments of the macrotrends that underlie the supply and use of physician services. These trends include economic expansion, population growth, physicians' work effort, and the provision of services by nonphysician clinicians. Contrary to earlier predictions, this model projects that the United States soon will have a shortage of physicians and that if the pace of medical education remains unchanged, the shortage will become more severe. A dialogue focused on that eventuality is imperative.

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Medical schools and their applicants: an analysis.

Shortages of physicians have existed periodically throughout U.S. history. In response, medical school capacity has been increased, by either building new schools or expanding existing ones. Each strategy has encountered the obstacles of time, money, and applicants. If the United States chooses to increase its infrastructure for medical education again, these past experiences offer lessons that can be drawn upon. The most instructive ones are how long this process will take, how important public sponsorship and financing will be, and how much it will depend on antecedent dynamics within K-12 and baccalaureate education to assure an adequate flow of applicants, all of which makes the need to develop strategies for the future ever more pressing.

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Scarce physicians encounter scarce foundations: a call for action.

The United States is in the early phases of a deepening shortage of physicians, a situation last experienced fifty years ago. As then, energy and creativity will be needed to meet the nation's needs, and U.S. philanthropic foundations will again be called upon to play leadership roles. The issues are broad--extending from medical education to regulation and from building new schools to recruiting more international medical graduates. Throughout these issues, foundations are uniquely positioned to convene stakeholders, fund analyses, foster new medical education paradigms, and support the growth of its infrastructure. Foundations will be necessary partners in what is to come.

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