Smith Richard, Stain Steven C, McFadden David W, Finlayson Samuel R G, Jones Daniel B, Reid-Lombardo K Marie
Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA.
J Gastrointest Surg. 2014 Jul;18(7):1334-42. doi: 10.1007/s11605-014-2522-4. Epub 2014 Apr 19.
Multiple reports have cited the looming shortage of physicians over the next decades related to increasing demand, an aging of the population, and a stagnant level in the production of new physicians. General surgery shares in this problem, and the specialty is "stressed" by a declining workforce related to increasing specialization that leaves gaps in emergency, trauma, and rural surgical care.
The Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) Public Policy and Advocacy Committee sponsored panel discussions regarding the general surgery workforce shortage at the Digestive Disease Week 2012 and 2013 meetings. The 2012 panel focused on defining the problem. This is the summation of the series with the solutions to the general surgery workforce shortage as offered by the 2013 panel.
多项报告指出，在未来几十年里，由于需求增长、人口老龄化以及新医生数量停滞不前，医生短缺问题迫在眉睫。普通外科也面临这一问题，由于专业化程度提高导致劳动力减少，在急诊、创伤和农村外科护理方面出现缺口，该专业面临“压力”。
消化道外科学会（SSAT）公共政策与宣传委员会在2012年和2013年消化疾病周会议上主办了关于普通外科劳动力短缺问题的小组讨论。2012年的小组讨论重点是界定问题。本文是该系列文章的总结，介绍了2013年小组讨论提出的解决普通外科劳动力短缺问题的方案。
