Speech delivered to Plenary Session on "Specific Needs for Medical Manpower at the annual meeting of the Assocaition of American Medical Colleges (79th, Houston, Texas, Nov. 2, 1968).

This report investigates the training and retaining of physicians for Washington. The report concludes: (1) Washington does not have a desperate overall shortage of physicians, but the state is faced with serious physician distribution problems, particularly in urban ghetto and rural areas. (2) The University of Washington's School of Medicine is…

The article analyzes the management aspect of group practice, examining the effect of the manager on the use of nonphysician personnel. Findings suggest that management input is important in determining the utilization of nonphysician personnel in medical groups. (Author)

A report on the influx of scientists, engineers, and physicians from abroad is presented to assess recent trends in terms of numbers, occupations, and national backgrounds. Both immigrant and nonimmigrant components are included. Descriptions are made in connection with migration patterns, aliens adjusted to immigrant status, demographic…

The first section of this thesis is a review of previous studies and analyses of physician supply. Then, comparing the present physician shortage with the shortage of engineers and scientists during the 1950's, the author examines the present policies of the American Medical Association which, in effect, restrict the entry of physicians into the…

This report is a result of a study of the state's physician manpower by representatives of the fields of medical education and professional practice in Georgia. Contents include introduction and principal findings, recommendations, and analysis of present supply of physicians and other data. Recommendations suggest improvement of the utilization…

This paper considers medical personnel shortages, especially the shortage of physicians, and the different ways to alleviate these shortages. Chapter I gives a brief history (1963-1972) of legislation intended to increase medical manpower supply and Chapter II discusses the causes of the shortage, analyzing the elements affecting demand for…

The purpose of the study was to bring together available materials on the location, activity, and function of more than 63,000 foreign trained physicians in the United States; to review the political, economic, and organizational factors which have led to the current manpower situation; and to analyze these data in terms of physician manpower,…

Delivered at 80th annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 2, 1969. (IR)

Recommendations for meeting health manpower and training facility needs in Maryland are made, based on the included Coggeshall report. Demand for health personnel is contrasted with estimated future supplies. A third medical school should be planned and dependence on foreign physicians reduced. Rural areas should improve their own health services.…

The medical school-hospital relationship is examined in terms of graduate medical education, primary care initiatives, classification of patients, financing house staff, hospital referrals, and planning constraints. (LBH)

This document presents the report of the Commission to Study the Advisability and Feasibility of Utilizing Certain Medical Facilities as an Affiliated Operation of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Emphasis is placed on health manpower and physician needs, physician supply in Virginia, and increasing physician supply in Virginia. As a…