The American College of Surgeons has sponsored a website where you can view the distribution of surgeons by specialty on a color-coded map by state and by county. The state-level maps displays surgeons per 100,000 population for different specialties. The county-level maps compare the “per population” ratios for surgeons as a group, for physicians as a whole, and for primary care physicians as a group. These maps, with their accompanying data points, are based on 2011 data from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile.
Why do I like this? It’s free! It has data points, not just color-coded comparisons. It comes from an authoritative data source.
Follow-up: I had a conversation with a Katie Gaul, cartographer at the ACS Health Policy Research Institute about whether this atlas includes OSTEOPATH physicians (DOs) or whether it is limited to ALLOPATHIC physicians (MDs) . She said that osteopaths are included. [Telephone conversation Jan. 2013. (919) 966-6529
k_gaul@unc.edu]
Source: American College of Surgeons, Health Policy Research Institute. Atlas of the Surgical Workforce. Click here to access the site: http://www.acshpri.org/atlas/ Posted by American Hospital Association Resource Center, (312) 422-2050, rc@aha.org
Filed under: Health care workforce, Physician specialties, Physicians, Posted by Kim Garber, Surgery | Tagged: Distribution of surgeons in the U.S., Physicians per population ratios, Surgeons per population ratios, Surgical workforce statistics |
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