Current shortages of primary care physicians are expected to worsen in the coming years. Recent findings from the Health Resources and Services Administration suggest that the demand for primary care will result in a projected shortage of approximately 20,400 primary care physicians. These projections take on increased significance as up to 32 million people gain financial access to health insurance coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Many experts have embraced the idea of increasing the supply of primary care physicians and expanding the roles and numbers of primary care nurse practitioners providing primary care services as one way of addressing these projected shortages and consequent threats to access to care.
Success of efforts to bolster the primary care workforce rests in part on how these clinicians view their professions and their willingness to recommend their career to others. The authors of this study sought to examine career and job satisfaction, perceptions of workforce shortages, and willingness to make career recommendations among primary care physicians and primary care nurse practitioners.
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