Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society
CONCLUSION GME programs in hematology/oncology should consider future expansion to offset a national shortage of practicing specialists, variable in individual states. Other measures improving practice efficiencies, educational programs, and distribution characteristics should also be explored. Matching individual state GME and practice and targeting US average proportions are measures to begin to focus on. Planning directions for cancer care and blood diseases should include GME increases, as well as recruit- ment, distribution, and physician quality. REFERENCE 1. Blumenthal D, et al. New Steam from an Old Cauldron. The Physician – supply debate. NEJM 2004; 350:17. 2. Cooper RA. States With More Physicians Have Better-Quality Health Care. Health Affairs (Web Exclusive) 2008:w91-w101. 3. Council on Graduate Medical Education Resource Paper - State and Managed Care Support for GME: innovation and implication. 4. Carla P, Kent E, Mariotto, et al. Cancer Survivors: A Booming Population. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention 2011; 20:1996-2005. 5. Darves B: Physician Shortages in the Specialties Taking a Toll. www.nejmjobs.org 6. Erikson C, Salsberg E, Forte Gaetano, et.al: Future Supply and Demand for Oncologists: Challenges to Assuring Access to Oncology Services. J Oncology Practice March 2007; 3(2):79-86. 7. Hortobagyi GN: A Shortage of Oncologists? The American Society of Clinical Oncology Workforce Study. Am. Soc. Clin. Onc . April 20, 2007; 25(12):1468-1469. 8. 2010 Louisiana Specific AMA Physician Masterfile. 9. AAMC 2008 workforce: Complex of Physician Supply and Demand 10. AAMC 2011 report. Recent Studies and Reports on Physician Shortage in the U.S. 11. Rigby PG, Braun K, Hilton C, Pinsky W, et al. The Medical Education Commission Report 2007:GME is Recovering From Katrina. J LA State Med. Soc. 2009; 161:32-40. 12. Cooper RA: Expanding Physician Supply-An Imperative for Health Care Reform. The Pharos Spring 2010; 35-37.
Dr. Maronge is a Fellow in the Section of Hematology/Oncology at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. Dr. Ramnaryan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. Dr. Rigby is a Professor of Medicine in the Section of Hematology/Oncology at LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans.
14 J La State Med Soc VOL 166 January/February 2014
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