2006 MMS Physician Workforce Study
June 27, 2006
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.
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