PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Andrew F Goddard
TI  - Consultant physicians for the future: Report from a working party of the Royal College of Physicians and the medical specialties
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.10-6-548
DP  - 2010 Dec 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 548--554
VI  - 10
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/10/6/548.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/10/6/548.full
SO  - Clin Med2010 Dec 01; 10
AB  - Workforce planning in medicine is at best an inexact science and at worst a dark art. Over the past year it has become clear that several forces influencing the consultant physician workforce are coming into play at the same time. Many of these forces cannot be easily controlled, but their effects are predictable and thus can be prepared for. Recommendations are made as to how the issues raised should be addressed.