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The ACR’s 2015 Workforce Study Reveals Gap Between Rheumatologist Supply, Patient Demand

  |  Issue: February 2017  |  

More data may help make the case for more funds to invest in recruitment and training efforts. “Mentoring and access to mentors brings students into rheumatology. From a division director’s perspective, this is a crisis in many ways, but it’s only catastrophic if we ignore it.”

Susan Bernstein is a freelance medical journalist based in Atlanta.

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Reference

  1. Deal CL, Hooker R, Harrington T, et al. The United States rheumatology workforce: Supply and demand, 2005–2025. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2007 Mar;56(3):722–729.

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