Contents tagged with shortage

• CAPITOL UPDATE: Senate passes bill to increase residency slots

  Tags: capitol update, capitol, legislature, senate, higher education, bill, nelson, fiesinger, graduate medical education, physician of the day, residency, medicaid, women's health, shortage, curran, budget, realini, ortiz, lawrence, frederick, swegler, bander, margo, freeman, sprute

  Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:42:00 AM

  Capitol Update: Senate passes bill to increase residency slots

  posted 04.24.13

  The Senate passed legislation last week proposed by Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, that will strengthen the … more

• Senate Bill 143 unanimously approved

  Tags: capitol update, capitol, legislature, senate, higher education, bill, nelson, fiesinger, graduate medical education, physician of the day, residency, medicaid, women's health, shortage, duperval-brownlee, nuckols, eidson, stoltz, giannone, guerra, reardon, egerton, merian, hugman, hadley, palafox, berg, baumer

  Tuesday, April 2, 2013 2:15:00 PM

  Capitol Update: Senate committee approves bill to increase access to primary care

  posted 04.03.13

  The Senate Committee on Higher Education approved Senate Bill 143 Wednesday, April 3, which would … more

• State leaders must be willing to invest in the training of more primary care physicians

  Tags: workforce, shortage, primary care, cogme, centers for medicare and medicaid services, payment

  Monday, April 30, 2012 2:57:59 PM

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  By Tom Banning
  TAFP CEO/EVP

  There is not a self-respecting health policy analyst here or anywhere in the country who will say otherwise – we need to invest in and produce more primary care physicians.

  The conventional economic wisdom, backed by common sense and an abundance of evidence drawn from the real world, is that patients with ready access to primary care receive more timely and optimal health care services with better outcomes. Primary care physicians provide preventive, coordinated, and continuous care which results in less invasive and costly medical intervention and reduces the probability of redundant or unnecessary services.

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• Report: Texas residency slots not keeping up with medical school graduates

  Tags: workforce, medical school, primary care, shortage, residency, texas higher education coordinating board

  Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:03:00 AM

  Report: Texas residency slots not keeping up with medical school graduates

  posted 04.26.12

  A new report released April 25, 2012, reveals a severe problem in addressing the Texas physician … more

• Youens: Physicians and nurse practitioners work best as a team

  Tags: scope of practice, team-based care, primary care, shortage

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 9:44:00 AM

  Youens: Physicians and nurse practitioners work best as a team

  Plus, TAFP explores scope of practice in latest Texas Family Physician magazine

  posted 12.09.10

  In an editorial published Dec. 7 by … more

• National survey predicts growing shortage of primary care physicians

  Tags: survey, workforce, robert graham center, legislature, primary care coalition, primary care, shortage

  Saturday, January 31, 2009 4:00:00 AM

  National survey predicts growing shortage of primary care physicians

  Add one more report to the mounting stack of evidence that primary care in America is in short supply and in danger of becoming … more

• A matter of supply and demand

  Tags: workforce, primary care, shortage, training

  Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:00:00 AM

  A matter of supply and demand

  By Kate McCann

  Attention family physicians: Texas needs you. Yes, the U.S. population is increasing—and getting older on average—but as in most things, the problem … more