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

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.

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.