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INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE REPORTS ON THE HEALTH WORK FORCE
Pages 63-69

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... The Committee on Education in the Health Professions was one of three overview committees created in 1972. Since 1970, the TOM has undertaken over a dozen studies of the health care work force (listed at the end of this chapter)
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From page 64...
... . POLICIES AFFECTING THE SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF THE HEALTH WORK FORCE A number of TOM studies have examined the size, composition, and distribution of the health professions and health research work force.
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From page 65...
... C In addition to primary care and specialist physicians, recommendations in the 1978 report on manpower covered nurse practitioners and physician assistants, then relatively new personnel categories. The study committee explicitly stated that it could not support continued policies to increase medical school enrollments.
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From page 66...
... The report also is noteworthy for its use of a relatively comprehensive patient care data set to help devise and test hypotheses about work force deployment in varied patient care settings. Integrated health systems may in the future provide comparable data sets for work force analyses.
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From page 67...
... The report emphasized that without an increase in the number of qualified high school and college students in the educational "pipeline," the health professions schools would primarily be competing with each other for a relatively small group of students rather than achieving greater diversity overall. SPECIFIC PROFESSIONS Dunng the 1980s, three studies expressed concern about the educational preparation of three broad categories of health personnel: (~)
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From page 68...
... , focused on the interdisciplinary nature of this field, in which even counting the supply of personnel and categorizing educational programs is a challenge. SUMMARY Over 25 years, the body of work produced by TOM committees studying education and work force issues has strengthened the methodological and analytical base for work force and related policy decisions, helped identify challenges and directions for specific professions, emphasized the interrelations among health professionals and researchers, and recommended strategies for educating health professionals to serve a variety of societal goals.
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... Health Services Integration, 1982. Health Services Research: Work Force and Educational Issues, Marilyn J
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