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Journal articles on the topic "Medical workforce shortages"

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Babcock, Jessica M., Blake D. Babcock, and Marshall Z. Schwartz. "Maintaining a Sufficient and Quality Physician Workforce: The Role of For-profit Medical Schools." Health Services Insights 6 (January 2013): HSI.S10462. http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/hsi.s10462.

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Currently, in the United States there is a significant physician workforce shortage. This problem is likely to persist as there is no quick solution. The nature of this shortage is complex and involves factors such as an absolute physician shortage, as well as physician shortages in primary care and certain specialty care areas. In addition, there is a misdistribution of physicians to medically underserved areas and populations. The medical education system trains medical school graduates that eventually feed the physician workforce. However, several factors are in place which ultimately limits the effectiveness of this system in providing an appropriate workforce to meet the population demands. For-profit medical schools have been in existence in and around the continental US for many years and some authors have suggested that they may be a major contributor to the physician workforce shortage. There is currently one for-profit medical school in the US, however the majority exist in the Caribbean. The enrollment in and number of these schools have grown to partially meet the ever-growing demand for an increase in medical school graduates and they continue to provide a large number of graduates who return to the US for postgraduate medical training and, ultimately, increase the physician workforce. The question is whether this source will benefit the workforce quality and quantity needs of our growing and aging population.
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Haslam, Michael B., Anita Flynn, and Karen Connor. "Access courses and their contribution to the widening participation agenda in the UK." British Journal of Mental Health Nursing 11, no. 1 (February 2, 2022): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2021.0030.

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Reasons for mental health nursing shortages in the UK are many and complex. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to fill vacant posts, while at the same time negatively impacting on the UK's international recruitment strategy. Whereas international recruitment is essential to reduce workforce shortages, it offers only a short-term solution and potentially leaves lower-income countries with increased nursing shortages themselves. This article considers that a long-term domestic approach to recruitment is needed to reduce future workforce deficits. It is argued that benefits of access courses are increased if delivered by the university directly, as a familiarity with systems, the campus and supportive networks are promoted, and the potential for targeted support is increased. Further research is needed to establish the benefits, but access courses delivered this way may provide a more sustainable solution to nursing workforce shortages in the UK and beyond.
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Jayarathne, Y. G. Shamalee Wasana, Riitta Partanen, and Jules Bennet. "Objective Simulated Bush Engagement Experience (OSBEE): A novel approach to promote rural clinical workforce." Asia Pacific Scholar 6, no. 2 (May 4, 2021): 94–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.29060/taps.2021-6-2/cs2449.

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The mal-distributed Australian medical workforce continues to result in rural medical workforce shortages. In an attempt to increase rural medical workforce, the Australian Government has invested in the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training (RHMT) program, involving 21 medical schools (RHMT program, 2020). This funding requires participating universities to ensure at least 25% of domestic students attend a year-long rural placement during their clinical years and 50% of domestic students experience a short-term rural clinical placement for at least four weeks.
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Regmi, Kiran, and Kapil Amgain. "Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities in Establishing and Maintaining Medical Education in Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (KAHS)." Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences 2, no. 2 (August 6, 2019): 79–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jkahs.v2i2.25165.

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The constitution of Nepal (2015), article 35 (Right relating to health) stated that every citizen shall have the right to free basic health services from the State, and no one shall be deprived of emergency health services. According to the World Bank report (collection of development indicators compiled from various official sources, 2016), Nepal has 81% rural and remote populations. Health service delivery is a complex reality for the rural and remote populations and faces enormous challenges. One of them is insufficient and uneven distribution of health workforce. The World Health Report concluded that "the severity of the health workforce crisis is in some of the world's poorest countries, of which 6 are in South East Asia out of 57 countries having critical shortages of health workforce."1Even after 13 years situation has not much improved. Nepal faces a critical shortage of trained health workforce, especially in rural and remote areas. Health workforce recruitment and retention in rural and remote areas is a difficult task challenged by the preferences and migration of health workforce to urban areas in country, or even abroad for better life and professional development.2 One of the most effective strategies for health workforce recruitment and retention for rural and remote areas could be that of establishing and maintaining Medical Education in rural and remote areas decentralized from urban academic medical centers.
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Koczwara, Bogda, Michael B. Barton, Euan T. Walpole, Peter Grimison, Prunella L. Blinman, Sally Crossing, and Kay Francis. "Workforce shortages in medical oncology: a looming threat to quality cancer care." Medical Journal of Australia 196, no. 1 (January 2012): 32–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja11.10356.

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Uppal, BS, Nishant, and Suhas Gondi, BA. "Addressing the EMS workforce shortage: How medical students can help bridge the gap." Journal of Emergency Management 17, no. 5 (September 1, 2019): 380–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/jem.2019.0436.

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The authors propose that, through innovative and mutually beneficial partnerships between medical schools and local Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies, medical students can help mitigate EMS shortages in areas across the country. These partnerships, which we have seen very early signs of in some places, would create channels by which medical students get their emergency medical technician certifications in the summer before matriculating and volunteer with the agency’s ambulance service, either as an extracurricular clinical experience (which are very popular among medical students) or as a way to fulfill clinical or service requirements or earn elective credit. In the attached piece, the authors (1) establish, using data, that a key factor contributing to current and impending EMS shortages is a lack of certified personnel, and (2) propose why and how medical students could provide a novel source of additional volunteers for understaffed public ambulance services, explore some of the benefits and limitations of this proposal, and provide a road-map for how to form partnerships between medical schools and local EMS agencies.
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Galbraith, Robert M., and Stephen G. Clyman. "Emerging Trends in the U.S. Physician Workforce: Implications for Licensure and Professional Standards." Journal of Medical Regulation 91, no. 1 (March 1, 2005): 14–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.30770/2572-1852-91.1.14.

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ABSTRACT During the past quarter century, demand for physicians has dramatically increased, yet the supply of trained allopathic United States medical graduates (USMG) has become fixed. Expansion of funded residency positions has allowed large-scale absorption of international medical graduates (IMG), but there is now growing competition for IMG from other Anglophone countries with developing shortages. Substantive expansion of allopathic USMG enrollment will have to overcome hard fiscal and political realities and an uncertain pool of additional qualified applicants. Although the numbers of osteopathic physicians and non-physician clinicians (NPC) have increased briskly over the last decade, particularly in primary care, their ability to address shortages of specialists appears limited. This conjunction of events could result in serious shortages of physicians, particularly of specialists and in areas that are traditionally victims of maldistribution. Although many corrective actions are theoretically possible, most are impractical, and increasing enrollment of allopathic USMG may be the most feasible immediate approach. There could also be important ripple effects on professional standards, procedures for licensure and the introduction of several important new initiatives in assessment relevant to licensure and certification.
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Coleman, Mathew, and Denese Playford. "Time to end the drought in the bush." Australasian Psychiatry 27, no. 4 (June 10, 2019): 366–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856219852296.

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Objective: This paper outlines the current psychiatry workforce shortages experienced by rural and remote communities in Australia and argues that postgraduate training in psychiatry may play a role in rectifying these healthcare access inequities. Conclusion: Funding for postgraduate medical specialist training in Australia is undergoing a shift away from solely metropolitan-centric training schemes, based on substantial evidence over the past two decades in undergraduate medical training. Psychiatry is well placed to lead the development of dedicated postgraduate rural training pathways to enhance recruitment and retention of an urgently required rural and remote psychiatry workforce.
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Gerber, Jonathan P., and Louis I. Landau. "Driving change in rural workforce planning: the Medical Schools Outcomes Database." Australian Journal of Primary Health 16, no. 1 (2010): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py09049.

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The Medical Schools Outcomes Database (MSOD) is an ongoing longitudinal tracking project of medical students from all medical schools in Australia and New Zealand. It was established in 2005 to track the career trajectories of medical students and will directly help develop models of workforce flow, particularly with respect to rural and remote shortages. This paper briefly outlines the MSOD project and reports on key methodological factors in tracking medical students. Finally, the potential impact of the MSOD on understanding changes in rural practice intentions is illustrated using data from the 2005 pilot cohort (n = 112). Rural placements were associated with a shift towards rural practice intentions, while those who intended to practice rurally at both the start and end of medical school tended to be older and interested in a generalist career. Continuing work will track these and future students as they progress through the workforce, as well as exploring issues such as the career trajectories of international fee-paying students, workforce succession planning, and the evaluation of medical education initiatives.
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Flores, Debra, Asher George, and Morgan House. "Rural health workforce development - a qualitative study of themes related to provider shortages in West Texas." Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 10, no. 44 (July 22, 2022): 35–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.12746/swrccc.v10i44.1057.

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Introduction: Healthcare administrators struggle to recruit healthcare providers for rural communities. Multiple hospital closures throughout the United States reflect a direct outcome of the healthcare professional shortages in rural communities. Medical facility administrators continue to scramble for ideas to recruit healthcare providers. This research was driven by the need to identify effective strategies to recruit healthcare providers to rural communities. Methods: To address this gap in rural health care, four centers associated with the West Texas Area Health Education Center (AHEC) program office set out to host focus groups at regional symposiums over six months in the form of panel discussions. Each center recruited three panels consisting of hospital administrators, practicing healthcare providers, and healthcare provider students, including medical, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant students. Results: The themes that emerged revolve around advantages, disadvantages, suggestions and requests, and overall strategies regarding recruitment and retention of rural providers. These findings included better pay and benefits for providers, small town lifestyles, limited preceptorships, and increased funding for medical education in rural areas. Conclusion: Given the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, these findings support the public health significance of the need for effective recruitment strategies to address the shortage of rural providers in West Texas and beyond.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Medical workforce shortages"

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Hayes-Burrell, Ingrid Monique. "Financing School-Based Health Centers: Sustaining Business Operational Services." ScholarWorks, 2015. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1684.

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Walden University College of Management and Technology This is to certify that the doctoral study by Ingrid Hayes-Burrell has been found to be complete and satisfactory in all respects, and that any and all revisions required by the review committee have been made. Review Committee Dr. Ify Diala, Committee Chairperson, Doctor of Business Administration Faculty Dr. Anne Davis, Committee Member, Doctor of Business Administration Faculty Dr. Yvette Ghormley, University Reviewer, Doctor of Business Administration Faculty Chief Academic Officer Eric Riedel, Ph.D. Walden University 2015 â?? School-based health centers (SBHCs) have faced challenges in securing adequate funding for operations and developing sound business systems for billing and reimbursement. Specifically, administrators often lack strategies to develop and sustain funding levels to support appropriate resources for business operations. The focus of this descriptive study was to explore best practice strategies to develop and sustain funding through the experiences of SBHC administrators. The conceptual framework included Elkington's sustainability theory, which posits that corporate social responsibility, stakeholder involvement, and citizenship improve manager's effect on the business system. Twenty full-time SBHC administrators working in separate locations throughout the state of Maryland participated in semistructured telephone interviews. The van Kaam process was used to cluster descriptive experiences in data analysis that resulted in the development of thematic strategies for implementing best practices relevant to developing and sustaining funding for SBHC business operations. Major themes provided by the participants were interagency communications, creating marketing plans, and disparities in the allocation of funding for programs and professional staff. Findings indicated SBHC administrators continue to face challenges in developing and sustaining adequate funding for operations in the state of Maryland. Suggestions for future research include how administrators can develop marketing plans and explore long-range funding for SBHC services. The findings in this study may contribute to positive social change by demonstrating to officials in the Maryland State Department of Education the significance of SBHCs, and the need to increase mental health services.
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McFayden, Lisa. "An examination of the structural and political barriers preventing permanent resident overseas-trained doctors from working as general practitioners in rural New South Wales." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/29762.

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This thesis explores the barriers that are preventing large numbers of permanent resident overseas-trained doctors (PROTDs) from working as general practitioners (GPs) in rural New South Wales (NSW). It focuses specifically on doctors from non-English speaking backgrounds who are permanent residents of Australia or Australian citizens, and who migrated to Australia for reasons other than employment. This thesis explores the views and perceptions of PROTDs and does not specifically consider the views of other stakeholders. Archival, qualitative and quantitative research techniques have been used to determine the suitability of the policies and practices governing the appointment and registration of PROTDs in NSW, and to identify any policy changes required. This research demonstrates that the policies governing medical registration in NSW have frequently been driven by political factors, and have, at times, been used to control the size of the medical workforce. As a consequence of these policies, many PROTDs have been prevented from working as a doctor in NSW. Of particular concern is the lack of training or clinical experience available to PROTDs and their difficulties preparing for, and passing, the Australian Medical Council (AMC) examinations. The lack of accurate information regarding the requirements and opportunities for medical practice in NSW is also a major problem. PROTDs in NSW are unable to get the training and support they need to meet the requirements for medical registration in NSW and are rapidly losing their confidence, and their clinical skills. Not all PROTDs are going to have, or be able to acquire, the skills and knowledge required for general practice in rural NSW. However the need for additional doctors is sufficiently great to warrant a proactive approach from governments and relevant agencies. In the seven years it has taken to complete this research, most of the discriminatory aspects of the assessment and registration of PROTDs in NSW have been removed. However the legacy of previous policies and practices remains and a large number of PROTDs remain out of the medical workforce.
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McFayden, Lisa. "An examination of the structural and political barriers preventing permanent resident overseas-trained doctors from working as general practitioners in rural New South Wales." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/29762.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy
This thesis explores the barriers that are preventing large numbers of permanent resident overseas-trained doctors (PROTDs) from working as general practitioners (GPs) in rural New South Wales (NSW). It focuses specifically on doctors from non-English speaking backgrounds who are permanent residents of Australia or Australian citizens, and who migrated to Australia for reasons other than employment. This thesis explores the views and perceptions of PROTDs and does not specifically consider the views of other stakeholders. Archival, qualitative and quantitative research techniques have been used to determine the suitability of the policies and practices governing the appointment and registration of PROTDs in NSW, and to identify any policy changes required. This research demonstrates that the policies governing medical registration in NSW have frequently been driven by political factors, and have, at times, been used to control the size of the medical workforce. As a consequence of these policies, many PROTDs have been prevented from working as a doctor in NSW. Of particular concern is the lack of training or clinical experience available to PROTDs and their difficulties preparing for, and passing, the Australian Medical Council (AMC) examinations. The lack of accurate information regarding the requirements and opportunities for medical practice in NSW is also a major problem. PROTDs in NSW are unable to get the training and support they need to meet the requirements for medical registration in NSW and are rapidly losing their confidence, and their clinical skills. Not all PROTDs are going to have, or be able to acquire, the skills and knowledge required for general practice in rural NSW. However the need for additional doctors is sufficiently great to warrant a proactive approach from governments and relevant agencies. In the seven years it has taken to complete this research, most of the discriminatory aspects of the assessment and registration of PROTDs in NSW have been removed. However the legacy of previous policies and practices remains and a large number of PROTDs remain out of the medical workforce.
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Books on the topic "Medical workforce shortages"

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California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Health. University of California medical school admissions and shortages in the California health care workforce: Joint informational hearing. Sacramento, CA: Senate Publications, 2005.

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United, States Congress Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions. Who will care for us?: The looming crisis of health workforce shortages : hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, on examining the looming crisis of health care worker shortage, July 12, 2002, Warwick, RI. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2003.

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Connecticut Area Health Education Center Program., Connecticut. Dept. of Public Health., and Connecticut. Office of Public Health Workforce Development., eds. Toward solving Connecticut's health care workforce shortages. [Hartford]: The Department, 2002.

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Connecticut Area Health Education Center Program., Connecticut. Dept. of Public Health., and Connecticut. Office of Public Health Workforce Development., eds. Toward solving Connecticut's health care workforce shortages. [Hartford]: The Department, 2002.

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US GOVERNMENT. Who Will Care for Us?: The Looming Crisis of Health Workforce Shortages: Hearing Before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensio. Government Printing Office, 2003.

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Dimitrov, Nadya, and Kathy Kemle, eds. Palliative and Serious Illness Patient Management for Physician Assistants. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190059996.001.0001.

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There are still medical providers who believe palliative care medicine is limited to care of the dying. It is actually devoted to relief of suffering at every stage of life. Comprehensive management of patients with serious illness, including the relief of their symptoms, impacts their lives and those of their families, significant others, and caregivers, including healthcare providers. The knowledge and skills inherent in this medical specialty enables them all to grow and fosters resilience in their lives. Patient centered care is the best model that incorporates team practice with physicians and other healthcare professionals, and this is a cornerstone of palliative care medicine. Furthermore, PAs are compassionate listeners who provide comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of vulnerable patient populations across the life span and in all healthcare settings. Among medical providers involved in palliative care medicine, PAs are the only group whose accreditation requirements incorporate this knowledge and training. This text represents a new resource for PAs, clinicians, researchers, and educators of the profession to further facilitate its expansion into palliative and serious illness care. PAs are thereby poised to reduce the workforce shortage of healthcare professionals in palliative care medicine.
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Book chapters on the topic "Medical workforce shortages"

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Harp, Djana, Ruth S. Shim, Japera Johnson, Jamil A. Harp, William Clyde Wilcox, and Judith K. Wilcox. "Race and Gender Inequalities in Medicine and Biomedical Research." In Critical Research on Sexism and Racism in STEM Fields, 115–34. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0174-9.ch006.

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There is a critical need to develop initiatives aimed at expanding and diversifying the healthcare workforce, beginning with medical education. This chapter addresses racial and gender disparities in academic medicine and biomedical research. Racial and ethnic minorities and women remain underrepresented in medicine, biomedical research, and healthcare leadership. These disparities are national issues and have far-reaching effects which translate into significant educational and healthcare-delivery disparities. Research has shown that health care professionals from underserved backgrounds are more likely than others to work in underserved areas which would address current shortages in health professionals for the medically underserved. The authors describe their theory for the existence and persistence of these disparities. They offer evidence of these disparities while concluding with current initiatives to address these disparities, calling for innovative approaches to training underrepresented minorities and women as physicians and biomedical research scientists.
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Byrd, David A., and Dave A. Louis. "Addressing the Shortage of Teachers of Color." In Examining the Impact of Community Colleges on the Global Workforce, 197–208. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8481-2.ch010.

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To address the higher education access gap, post-secondary institutions must be aware and address the shortage of teachers of color in K-12 education. Within this chapter, the authors argue that community colleges must play an inherent role in identifying and preparing the new generation of teachers who identify as racially or ethnically under-represented in the field. Evidence of the teaching shortage along with workable strategies are presented to help administrators both understand the current shortage and ways to medicate the lack of diversity in the K-12 teaching force.
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Lew, Susie Q., Shailendra Sharma, Marc O. Siegel, Hana Akselrod, Simranjit Kaur, Anita Kumar, Marie L. Borum, and Hartmut Gross. "Medical Subspecialty Telehealth Consults." In A Practical Guide to Emergency Telehealth, edited by Hartmut Gross, 142–48. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190066475.003.0012.

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Health care reforms are advancing new care models that emphasize population-based outcomes. Emergency clinicians are challenged to provide coordinated care with limited resources. Emerging value-based models create the incentives for emergency clinicians to collaborate with specialists to provide high-quality care while lowering cost by reducing admissions when possible. Subspecialty consultation may be difficult to obtain in regions where the population does not support a subspecialist or where there is a workforce shortage. However, obtaining a telehealth subspecialist consult from a remote pool, local network, or established patient–physician relationship can provide such a service. Several use-cases are presented to illustrate how telehealth subspecialty consultation from the emergency department can change patient care and outcomes.
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Kalambi, Mihir Dilip. "Caring for the Caregivers Through Healthy Human Resource Practices." In Research Anthology on Human Resource Practices for the Modern Workforce, 1344–51. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3873-2.ch070.

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India has a colossal shortage of human resources for health. The management of human resources in a healthcare institution is vital to enable the delivery of efficient and effective medical services and to achieve patient satisfaction. Everyone proclaims that the human asset is the most important asset. On the other side, health is declared to be one of the most important wealth. Hospitals and pharmaceutical companies constitute two arms of the “health management/ maintenance” effort of humanity. Human resource professionals face many hurdles in their attempt to deliver high-quality health care to citizens. Some of these constraints include budgets, lack of congruence between different stakeholders' values, absenteeism rates, high rates of turnover, and low morale of health personnel.
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Weiss, Debra N. "Assessing Online Courses in Health Education." In Advances in Medical Education, Research, and Ethics, 480–507. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9494-1.ch020.

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Internet-based health education is being used increasingly around the world for two related purposes: 1) to train a global health workforce of nurses, physicians, health educators, and other health workers, and 2) to educate the public about disease prevention and management (e.g., in outbreaks of SARS in China and Ebola in Africa). Assessment of online health education is vital to maintain quality control and to share best practices. Online health education has been found to have significant positive effects on e-learners, comparable to those of traditional face-to-face instruction. In developing countries where there is a critical shortage of health workers, distance education is needed to train large numbers of health workers rapidly and effectively. In developed countries, online health education is a cost-effective means of providing access to 1) higher education for individuals who are employed full time and wish to pursue training in the health professions, 2) workplace continuing education for health professionals, and 3) public health campaigns that promote healthy behaviors. In this chapter we look at what is going on in the field now, and what can be done in the future to use technology to advance the mass dissemination of health education.
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Conference papers on the topic "Medical workforce shortages"

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Erigüç, Gülsün. "Density and Number of Physicians in Turkey for the Period of 2002-2012: An Evaluation of Macro Health Manpower Planning." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c05.01002.

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Health care delivery requires a sufficient number of manpower. It is recognized that the shortage of health workforce is the most important issue for the health sector. Health manpower distribution should be in a balanced across the country. National human resources for health policies require evidence-based planning. Health manpower planning involves issues such as planning, employment and management of workforce. The main objectives of this study are determine physician numbers, compare the data to OECD and other countries, distribution of physicians, proportion of health employees to each other. The main criteria used in health manpower planning are that the numerical situation of manpower, while the other is distinguishes of manpower according to the regions, provinces and institutions. The Ministry of Health of Turkey Health Statistics Year Books (last one published in 2013 for 2012 data) and the other statistics were used for obtaining data. In Turkey, physicians total has increased by 41,1%, in this period. Specialist physician increased by 54, 2%, general practitioner 25, 8%, medical residents 33, 4%. In 2002, 62, 4% of physicians total were working in the Ministry of Health while 21.9% universities, 15.7% private sector. In 2012, 56.8% of physicians total were working in the Ministry of Health, 20.8% universities, 22.4% private sector. In 2002, Turkey had 139 physicians per 100.000 populations while the number is 172, in 2012. According to the tenth five-year development plan, the number of physicians per 100.000 people are estimated to be 176 for 2013, while 193 for 2018.
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Sircar, Tuisha, Osama Manzar, and Syed Kazi. "Using Skill Chatbot to Address India’s Skill Shortage and Unemployment." In Tenth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Commonwealth of Learning, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56059/pcf10.553.

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India has a paradox of skilling where an acute shortage of skilled workforce, as well as high levels of unemployment, exists together. To address this and to ensure that India reaps the benefits of demographic dividend, it is critical to skill its youth population. Affordability and accessibility of avenues for skilling is still a challenge for uneducated and unqualified youth. They also require platforms for skilling that facilitate learning at their own pace and time, local language instruction, usage of multimedia formats to retain attention and minimal entry-level requirements. // In addition to the unemployed youth, India’s artisans and rural entrepreneurs would also benefit from the skilling on digital literacy, financial literacy, digital financial literacy, citizen services and data management. As per a baseline study undertaken by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and Commonwealth of Learning (COL), even when the artisans, weavers and rural entrepreneurs possess smartphones and access the internet, using smartphones to acquire new skills and conduct business is minimal. The majority of the respondents expressed interest in training in online commerce, social media marketing and online data management. It is in this context that Skill Bot becomes relevant. // Skillbot is a self-learning chatbot built on the Telegram platform. Telegram is a free, open-source and accessible messaging service. Unlike WhatsApp, which offers paid chatbot features, Telegram chatbots are completely free as well making them accessible to organizations. // Skillbot was developed by DEF and Commonwealth of Learning to teach digital literacy, financial literacy, citizen services and data management. Skillbot is multilingual and employs tutorial lessons, audio graphics, infographics, flashcards, interactive quizzes and activities for teaching. Since both Telegram and Skill Bot is free, easy to use and accessible, this provides a platform for those without access to formal avenues of learning to acquire the skillsets. Using the Skillbot requires basic digital literacy only. Additionally, since it is interactive with continuous assessment, learners can proceed at their own pace. So far, 2400 users have been accessing it. // From an organizational point of view also, Skillbot is a valuable tool. Covid-19 pandemic has restricted the ability of organizations to reach out to learners. Skillbot provides the opportunity to deliver content to a large demographic at a minimal cost. Organizations find it costly to build, manage, promote and maintain mobile applications or web-based learning management systems. Telegram also provides back end technical support, further reducing cost and labor.
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Reports on the topic "Medical workforce shortages"

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Norsworthy, Sarah, Rebecca Shute, Crystal M. Daye, and Paige Presler-Jur. National Institute of Justice’s Forensic Technology Center of Excellence 2019 National Opioid and Emerging Drug Threats Policy and Practice Forum. Edited by Jeri D. Ropero-Miller and Hope Smiley-McDonald. RTI Press, July 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2020.cp.0011.2007.

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The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and its Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (FTCoE) hosted the National Opioid and Emerging Drug Threats Policy and Practice Forum on July 18–19, 2019, in Washington, DC. The forum explored ways in which government agencies and programs, law enforcement officials, forensic laboratory personnel, medical examiners and coroners, researchers, and other experts can cooperate to respond to problems associated with drug abuse and misuse. Panelists from these stakeholder groups discussed ways to address concerns such as rapidly expanding crime laboratory caseloads; workforce shortages and resiliency programs; analytical challenges associated with fentanyl analogs and drug mixtures; laboratory quality control; surveillance systems to inform response; and policy related to stakeholder, research, and resource constraints. The NIJ Policy and Practice Forum built off the momentum of previous stakeholder meetings convened by NIJ and other agencies to discuss the consequences of this national epidemic, including the impact it has had on public safety, public health, and the criminal justice response. The forum discussed topics at a policy level and addressed best practices used across the forensic community.
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