RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Consultant physicians for the future: Report from a working party of the Royal College of Physicians and the medical specialties
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 548
OP 554
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.10-6-548
VO 10
IS 6
A1 Andrew F Goddard
YR 2010
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/10/6/548.abstract
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.