Achieving an Interdisciplinary Workforce in Health Care

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Abstract
In recent decades, fundamental changes in the organization and financing of medical services in the United States, combined with social and demographic changes, have set the stage for a substantially altered division of labor in health care.1 At the beginning of the 20th century, physicians accounted for approximately one in three health care workers. By the early 1980s, when Starr anticipated the major changes in American medicine that would result from “corporatization” and organizational consolidation of health services,2 the ratio had fallen to about 1 in 16.3 The supply of nonphysician clinicians has subsequently grown at unparalleled rates, and between . . .
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