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Time for a new approach to medical workforce planning
Author(s) -
Joyce Catherine M,
McNeil John J,
Stoelwinder Johannes U
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb05972.x
Subject(s) - workforce , workforce planning , economic shortage , perspective (graphical) , key (lock) , business , supply and demand , operations management , process management , computer science , economics , economic growth , microeconomics , computer security , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , government (linguistics)
There are concerns that Australia is facing an impending shortage in the medical workforce, and there are significant changes occurring in key determinants of medical workforce supply and demand. To date, workforce planning has not taken into account the full range of dynamic variables that are involved, nor accounted for their inherent uncertainty and complex interactions. Future planning will require more careful monitoring and dynamic modelling within a full healthcare system perspective.