Committee to Develop Methods Useful to the Department of Veterans Affairs in Estimating Its Physician Requirements

HAROLD M.VISOTSKY (Chair),^† Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, and Director, Institute of Psychiatry, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

ROBERT L.LEON (Co-Chair), Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio

D.ROBERT FOWLER, Chief, Psychiatry Service, Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

DAVID J.KNESPER, Director, Division of General Hospital Services, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

JOHN O.LIPKIN, Chief of Staff, Perry Point VA Medical Center, Perry Point, Maryland

JOHN A.TALBOTT, Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland at Baltimore

ROBERT L.WILLIAMS, Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Staff: Judith L.Teich, Staff Officer

Front Matter (R1-R12)

Executive Summary (1-14)

Section I: Specialty and Clinical Program Panel ReportsOverview of the Specialty and Clinical Program Panels (15-74)

Medicine Panel Report (75-98)

Surgery Panel Report (99-160)

Psychiatry Panel Report (161-206)

Neurology Panel Report (207-236)

Rehabilitation Medicine Panel Report (237-268)

Other Physician Specialities Panel Report (269-310)

Ambulatory Care Panel Report (311-350)

Long-Term Care Panel Report (351-392)

Section II: Affiliations Panel ReportAffiliations Panel Report (393-418)

Section III: Nonphysician Practitioners Panel ReportNonphysician Practitioners Panel Report (419-466)

Section IV: Further Examination of the Empirically Based Physician Staffing Models (467-530)

Appendix A: Rosters of the Data and Methodology Panel and VA Liaison Committee (531-534)

Appendix B: List of Abbreviations (535-536)