The young obstetrician-gynecologist--1987.
By the year 2000 nearly 60% of practicing obstetrician-gynecologists will have graduated from medical school after 1975 and been in practice 20 years or less. At the midpoint of that era we estimate and examine the numbers of such specialists (more than 40,000 by the year 2000), the percentage of women obstetrician/gynecologists (26% in the year 2000), their predominant forms of practice, practice differences between men and women specialists, the changing and aging of the populations of women they will serve, and the participation of young physicians in medical organizations. All of these reflect the picture of our specialty when a new century begins.
Pearse
W H
WH
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Washington, DC 20024-2588.
Fielden
J G
JG
D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006176:Gynecology / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000639:trends; D010822:Physicians, Women; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce