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The Extent of the Physician Shortage
Pages 10-13

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... estimated the need by 1990 for 2,300 board-certified occupational medicine specialists,~3 a smaller number from that initially estimated by a technical pane' convened by GMENAC. The lowered projection reflected both limitations in availability of medical training and a perception by some that physicians in preventive medicine made lithe contribution to clinical services.73~4 A 1988 report by the Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr)
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... None has deliberately included the relatively new and less defined field of environmental medicine. GMENAC projections overall for the 1990 supply of preventive medicine specialists, adjusted to the proportion of AMA survey respondents who practice occupational medicine (40 percent)
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... Because of the limitations of these estimates, including the lack of specific consideration of environmental medicine as part of the field, Castorina estimated a current shortage of 3,100 to 5,500 physicians, numbers that include primary care physicians with special competence in occupational and environmental medicine (OEM clinicians)
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... . 1 Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee; see reference 15.
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