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Evaluation of workforce needs in pediatric surgery
Investigator (PI): Fraher, Erin
Performing Organization (PO): (Current): University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research / (919) 966-5011
Supporting Agency (SA): American College of Surgeons (ACS)
Initial Year: 2014
Final Year: 2015
Record Source/Award ID: ACS/0
Funding: Total Award Amount: $52,000
Award Type: Grant
Abstract: This is a proposal from the Cecil G. Sheps Center (Sheps Center) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to investigate the workforce needs in pediatric surgery. The Sheps Center will refine and update its medical workforce model to specifically include pediatric populations and the range of pediatric surgical procedures to generate prediction of the numbers of pediatric surgeons and pediatric surgery subspecialties likely to be in practice through the year 2030, the estimated need for these surgeons, and comparisons to other surgical specialties whose operative work overlaps that of pediatric surgeons (e.g., general surgery). The project will project and describe the pathways of surgeons into and out of pediatric specialty training using data from the Advisory Commission on Graduate Medical Education.
MeSH Terms:
  • Education, Medical, Graduate
  • General Surgery
  • * Health Workforce
  • Humans
  • Medicine
  • North Carolina
  • Pediatrics
  • * Surgical Procedures, Operative
  • Universities
Country: United States
State: North Carolina
Zip Code: 27599
UI: 20154093
Project Status: Completed