| Show Medical Education Council Report Gillian Baty Associate Editor UtahHealth An Annual Review 2000-2001 adequately provide the needed healthcare Since 1995 interest has grown in Utah services within the state The second concerning the development ofsystematic section looks at what factors will impact the approach to understand the supply and prospective requirement for the services of demand of healthcare clinicians This section final The clinicians re healthca 1997 in codified and captured was interest identifies the policy actions necessary to with the passage of HB141 Medical achieve the required future workforce and Education Program that created the Medical accommodate the changing healthcare Education Council MEC in Utah One of demands of Utahfuture population the responsibiliies of the MEC is to assure that Utah has an adequate well-trained The MEC believesrange of 145-165 MD of needs the meet to healthcare workforce 263 NPand 104 PAper 100 000 the citizens of the state and region This residents is adequate to meet the needs of report UtahClinical Healthcare Workforce Utah citizens Our current figures are 155 by the MEC iscomprehensive analysis of 29 and 10 respectively Although Utah hashealthcare clinicians providing care in Utah relatively low primary care physician to for basisprovide to The report is intended population ratio we appear to have an developing clinical workforce policy for Utah adequate clinician supply because of Utahrelatively low healthcare service utilization Many insights summarized in this report and high HMO penetration highest in the have come from 1998-99 surveys of Utahnation Presently Utah is disproportionate licensed physicians MD advanced in ethnic diversity as well as geographic practice nurses NP and physician distribution with respect to clinicians versus assistants PA The survey data can be the population aswhole Despite the made available in support of research and apparent current adequate numbers of Utah policy analysis of Utahhealthcare stateclinicians the healthcare workforce The surveys were administered demographics are changing rapidly Taking by mail with an average 68 response rate retirement trends and demographic changes into account Utah will need to significantly The report is divided into three broad expand each of these professions by the sections The first examines the current clinical workforce in Utah and its capacity to year 2020 Medical Education Council 2000 UtahClinical Healthcare Worklorce Achieving balance through 2020 Salt Lake City UT 145 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
