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Pharmacy Choice

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer today launched a major effort to urge his colleagues in both the Senate and House of Representatives to immediately pass the Physician Shortage Act of 2017. Schumer explained that this critical legislation will add 15,000 more Medicare-supported residency training slots for doctors, helping to ensure teaching hospitals can train enough physicians to meet the growing demands for physicians as our nation is already in the midst of a doctor shortage. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the U.S. is expected to face a shortage of up to 43,100 primary care physicians and 61,800 specialty physicians by 2030…

…Additionally, a recent major report for the Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWSNY) found that providers are unevenly distributed across New York, with the Southern Tier often having far fewer physicians than it needs.

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HealthNewsDigest.com

The Exit Survey, conducted annually since 1998 (excluding 2004 and 2006), provides an overview of the outcomes of training and the demand for new physicians. Among the key data points tracked by the survey include physician job market assessments, demand based on areas of specialization, and the likelihood of physicians practicing in New York after completing training.

The demand for primary care physicians has outpaced demand for specialists every year since 2008. Primary care physicians were less likely than their specialist counterparts to report difficulty in finding a satisfactory job; they received more job offers than specialists and had a more positive assessment of the regional job market. Also of note, the average increase in median starting income was four percent for primary care physicians versus 3 percent for specialists from 2012 through 2016.

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Albany Times Union

The University of Albany’s School of Public Health conducts periodic reports on the health care workforce. And while it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the job market is good for newly minted physicians, there are what could be seen as a couple of surprises tucked into the study.

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GME Central. Greater New York Hospital Association Newsletter.

This issue’s Physician Workforce graphic looks at practice settings for graduating residents with confirmed practice plans. The data is from the Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) at the University at Albany’s “2014 New York Residency Training Outcomes,” a report on CHWS’ annual resident exit survey results.

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Syracuse.com

As the healthcare delivery system continues to undergo significant changes in America, WalletHub recently released a comparison of the 50 states and the District of Columbia designed to identify 2015’s Best & Worst States for Doctors.We have all witnessed changes locally as with the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), and the rise of hospital networks as with the affiliation of St. Joseph’s Hospital with Trinity Health. In addition, the rising costs of education have left the average medical school graduate with $176,000 of debt.

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