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Notice of Funding Opportunities. Reference 1. Publication: PEF. Page last reviewed July Only physicians with current, unrestricted licenses to practice medicine in the United States and the District of Columbia are included in the analyses. Temporary, limited and training licenses were excluded when such licenses could be identified. This methodology is consistent with previous physician censuses published by the FSMB and allows for better comparisons between them.
Findings from the physician census show that there are 1,, physicians, who hold a total of 1,, licenses to practice medicine across the United States and the District of Columbia.
These licensed physicians serve a national population of million people, reflecting a physician-to-population ratio of licensed physicians per , people, an increase from in Growth of the physician population, as in previous years, is largely derived from newly licensed physicians entering the workforce pipeline. State medical boards issued a total of , first-time medical licenses and licensure renewals during the and calendar years.
During the past decade, the licensed physician population has grown in number and continues to reflect changes in medical degree type, location of undergraduate medical education, specialty certification, age and sex Table 1. Although licensed physicians with an MD degree continue to dominate the physician workforce, the number of licensed physicians with a DO degree continues to grow at a rapid rate.
The licensed physician population continues to represent a broad geographic cross-section in terms of where they received their undergraduate medical school education. There has also been an increase in licensed physicians from the Caribbean who are U.
The average age of licensed physicians has risen since In , the mean age of licensed physicians is The percentage of licensed female physicians continues to increase, although men still comprise the majority. Accordingly, licensed female physicians are on average seven years younger Additional analysis of the data by sex and age shows that a greater percentage of female physicians fall within younger age categories than male physicians.
Comparisons with data are instructive and enlightening, and this report helps capture and summarize how the licensed physician population in the United States and the District of Columbia has grown and changed during the past decade. Growing and aging populations. Much of this increase may be attributed to the growth in the number of medical students during the past ten years. Physician shortages have been a debated topic for a number of years, and researchers have yet to reach a consensus on whether there will be a shortage and, if so, how severe.
The physician shortage, and especially the COVID pandemic, has highlighted the maldistribution of health care delivery across the United States, underscoring the lack of access to minority populations, rural communities and those without health insurance. Changing practice patterns. The demographic shifts throughout the country have been accompanied by changing and, in some instances, uncertain physician practice patterns.
A survey showed that physicians on average intend to retire at age The most common reasons associated with working beyond age 65 have been enjoyment of the practice of medicine, social aspects of work and a desire to maintain their existing lifestyle.
Health care recruiters are finding that Millennial physicians place more emphasis on work-life balance and therefore fewer work hours than do their older colleagues. Evolving health care delivery. As the COVID pandemic began to rapidly spread across the United States in , elective surgical procedures were postponed, 23 national medical licensing exams were temporarily suspended 24 , 25 and health systems implemented or expanded telemedicine capabilities at a swift pace.
Although the volume of telehealth visits has declined, it will likely remain above pre-pandemic levels in the foreseeable future. Even before the pandemic, integrated health care delivery models had been receiving greater attention as an option to help meet the increasing demand for health services and improve outcomes.
Diversifying physician population. The physician community continues to become more diverse in many, but not all areas. The U. Since the FSMB conducted its first physician census in , there have been substantial changes to the supply and composition of the available physician workforce, as well as a continued transformation in the delivery of health care from in-person care to telehealth.
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