Another View on Workforce Projections: A Bright Future, but the Details Can Be Cloudy

Article| March 2024 Another View on Workforce Projections: A Bright Future, but the Details Can Be Cloudy Mary Dale Peterson, MD, MSHCA, FACHE, FASA Mary Dale Peterson, MD, MSHCA, FACHE, FASA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 29. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001008296.28233.15 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Dale Peterson; Another View on Workforce Projections: A Bright Future, but the Details Can Be Cloudy. ASA Monitor 2024; 88:29 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001008296.28233.15 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: workforce I want to thank Dr. Yu et al. for a thought-provoking article on page 28 looking at possible causes for our workforce imbalance. While the hypothesis from Yu et al. that published workforce projections influence medical students' decision-making is plausible, there are other possible explanations. For example, emergency medicine (EM) physicians have the highest levels of burnout of all specialties, at 65%. They were especially taxed during COVID and continue to be challenged with high volumes, lack of bed capacity, and increasing workplace violence. Maybe medical students saw this distress in the EM faculty and residents and decided not to pursue EM as their specialty. Regarding the Abt report on anesthesiology workforce requirements, this study was undertaken and published during a time where the advent of managed care was heralded as being able to reduce specialty care in general, including surgery. Of course, in hindsight, we see that never happened.... You do not currently have access to this content.