2006 MMS Physician Workforce Study

The Massachusetts Medical Society’s fifth annual physician workforce study identifies shortages in two primary care specialties for the first time – internal medicine and family medicine. Shortages were also identified in psychiatry.

The study also confirmed that shortages continue in anesthesiology, cardiology, gastroenterology, general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics, and radiology.

Community hospitals continue to face the greatest difficult in recruiting and retaining physicians with 92 percent reporting such difficulties, compared to 67 percent of teaching hospitals.

Read the executive summary. (.pdf, 32 pages, 543 KB)

Read the full report. (.pdf, 162 pages, 1.2 MB)