title: Will minority physician supply meet U.S. needs?
abstract: We project the future racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. physician workforce under different assumptions. Our projections show that reaching racial and ethnic population parity with a managed care-based requirement of 218 physicians per 100,000 population would require the number of first-year residents to roughly double for Hispanic and black physicians, triple for Native American physicians, and be reduced by about two-fifths for white physicians and two-thirds for physicians of Asian or Pacific Island origin.
authors.affiliation: Wisconsin Network for Health Policy Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Libby
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Kindig
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010820:Physicians / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce