title: Excess, shortage, or sufficient physician workforce: how could we know?
abstract: At least three models have been used to project the future physician workforce, and each produces different results. No physician workforce predictions can be relied on until there is more consideration of and agreement on desired health outcomes and what physicians must do to achieve them.
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce; D016526:Workload