Organizing to Begin Physician Manpower Planning

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The most comprehensive information to date on physician supply and demand has been provided by the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC).1 The GMENAC projections show a steadily growing supply of physicians; the committee estimates that there will be 536,000 practicing physicians in 1990 and 643,000 in the year 2000, as compared with 375,000 physicians practicing in 1978. These figures contrast sharply with the estimated need for physicians, which the GMENAC has put at 466,000 and 498,000 for the years 1990 and 2000, respectively. More recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) Task Force on Manpower also concluded that a . . .