The Physician Shortage: Projections, Causes, and Solutions
Unprecedented Demand for Physicians The surging demand for physicians is underscored by AMN Healthcare’s Survey of Final-Year Medical Residents, which asks graduating medical residents to indicate the number of times they were contacted by recruiters about job opportunities during their training (see chart below):
About how many times during the course of your residency have you been solicited about medical practice job opportunities by hospitals, medical groups or other employers?
3% 0 - 10
5% 11 - 25
14% 51 - 100
22% 34 - 44
56% Over 100
Source: Survey of Final-Year Medical Residents. AMN Healthcare. 2023.
The majority of residents responding to the survey (56%) indicated they had been contacted over 100 times by recruiters about job opportunities during their training. This is the highest percent of final-year residents indicating they had received 100 or more job solicitations since AMN Healthcare/Merritt Hawkins first conducted the survey in 1991.
Given current market supply and demand dynamics, the challenge for newly trained physicians today is not finding a job opportunity, but choosing the right opportunity from a range of offers.
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