Workforce

I’m thrilled to share my reflections on the book Masterclass in Medicine: Lessons from the Experts, along with highlights from our insightful discussion with one of the editors, Jason Liebowitz, MD, about its goals and intent.

Health care workers seeking deep meditations and hard-won wisdom on clinical reasoning, mentorship, empathy and learning from mistakes now have a text offering a comprehensive look at the profession.

Although I have been a patient in rheumatology since I was 3, I didn't get “hooked on rheum” until I took a leave of absence from my physics PhD and attended the ACR’s annual meeting, in San Francisco, as a trainee of Fred Wolfe, MD.

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.