Workforce

Modest but significant decreases in OB/GYN practitioners occurred in states with full abortion bans following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Association, a study showed.

An aging population with more chronic metabolic disorders, an aging nursing workforce and a dearth of nephrology fellows may signal a continued decrease in the nephrology workforce, according to Healio | Nephrology News & Issues sources.

Literature has shown that the workforce shortage in gastroenterology may be approximately 12% to 15% by 2025.

The gastroenterologist workforce shortage has gotten worse, especially with the increased demand for GIs.

At last year’s ACG Annual Scientific Meeting, as president-elect, I sat in at the Board of Governors meeting, where the recurrent theme was workforce shortages in gastroenterology and how we were to address the workforce needs of the future.

A 2016 report from the Health Resources and Services Administration National Center for Health Workforce Analysis projected a shortage of 1,630 full-time physicians by 2025 in the field of gastroenterology.

U.S.-based medical oncologists reported experiencing higher rates of burnout in 2023 vs. 2013, according to survey results.

Pediatric nephrology is facing a looming workforce shortage. Concern initially developed within the community via anecdotal evidence and water cooler conversations at national meetings. More recently, alarm has heightened substantially due to the advent of more objective data.

I first considered pursuing rheumatology because of several inpatient cases that I encountered as a medical resident.

Over the past decade, I have been fortunate to have a platform on which to reflect about the varying dimensions of empathy as it applies to medical practice, and in particular its relevancy to the field of rheumatology.