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Physician Supply

Physician supply is one of the three most challenging workforce issues confronting IHA member hospitals. Today's shortfall is influenced in part by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which decreased and capped federal spending for residency training because of physician oversupply projections. However, aging demographics, gender and economic trends are currently indicating just the opposite. The Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) supports study findings that the U.S. actually faces a shortage of up to 96,000 doctors by the year 2020. IHA is working collaboratively with physician champions across the state on a number of initiatives to address Illinois' physician shortages.

2009 Illinois Physician Residency/Practice Retention Survey (NWM/IHA/ISMS/IL Public Health Institute Initiative)
- Project Invitation Letter
- Online Resident Physician Survey
IDPH Memo (5/20/09): Educational Loan Repayment Funds
Legislation - Physician Supply
- State: HJR 56: Illinois Physician Workforce Institute
- Federal: HR 1946: Health Workforce Investment Act of 2009
Rural Connections
- Reversing the Trend of Health Care Workforce Shortages in Rural Illinois (Matthew L. Hunsasker, MD, The National Center for Rural Health Professionals)
- Calling All Rural Pharmacists (PowerPoint presentation by David Bartels, PharmD, Vice Dean & Clinical Professor, University of Illinois College of Pharmacy at Rockford)
- Experience a Team Approach to Rural Practice (six-week residential field experience - May 28-July 9, 2008, Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital)
- Connect SI Nursing Council - Governor's Sub Cabinet Nursing Project
- Rockford Rural Health Center
- Profile of Rural Family Physician
National Perspective
- PowerPoint: The Interstate Migration Pattern of Physicians, 2000 to 2008 (AAFP Center for Policy Studies)