Abstract
National planning and management of the physician workforce is a multifaceted, difficult, and even controversial activity. It is an important subset of overall health workforce planning and management, which contributes to a country's having an effective and efficient health care system. This commentary builds on a new survey of specialty considerations by Israeli medical students early in their clinical training, places it in the broader context of health workforce planning, and provides examples of some approaches and activities being taken in the United States that are applicable to other developed countries.This is a commentary on http://www.ijhpr.org/content/1/1/13.
Highlights
National planning and management of the physician workforce is a multifaceted, difficult, and even controversial activity
Commentary In any country the ability of persons to get the health care services they need depends upon the size, composition, and accessibility of that country’s health care workforce and health care facilities
To address an apparent shortage of domestically trained and retained physicians, medical schools have been increasing their class sizes, and a new medical school has opened for the first time since 1974
Summary
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