Academic medical centres seem to have forgotten that they have a public role to play in
determining the supply of medical manpower in Canada, a recent physician man-power …

Whether the manpower shortage is simply one of the many ailments faced by the structure of
American medical care institutions or whether it is the determi-nant that prevents the …

A rash of dermatologists. A stream of urologists. A pile of proctologists. Most of the
lighthearted collective nouns for particular groups of physicians hint at excess. Recently …

In the United States we have only gradually become aware of the new field of manpower
planning. Economists favor a general assumption of scarcity. We have not had to think about …

Iglehart based the observa-tion on his participationin a 12-nation conference on the po-litical
dynamics of physician-manpower policy, held in Lon-don, England, in June 1988. He noted …

While statistics indicate the nation is producing more physicians than it needs,
administrators of rural or inner city hospitals still may have difficulty recruiting the physicians …

* The service provision approach; that is, it will be necessary to provide for enough
physicians to perform x physical examinations, y craniotomies, z electrocardiograms etc …

For the first time, a nonphysician is in charge of the Canadian Forces Medical Service
(CFMS). The post now belongs to a health care administrator-the director general health …

The authors state that"... economic demand tends to follow biological need more in countries
with centralized planning and socialized medicine, whereas it follows popular desire in …

Efforts to project future manpower re? quirement and supplies for physicians still leave much
to be desired. Because the various physician projections for 1975 differ so greatly, it is …