Reevaluation of the US Pathologist Workforce Size

JAMA Network Open
Stanley J RobboyW Stephen Black-Schaffer

Abstract

There is currently no national organization that publishes its data that serves as the authoritative source of the pathologist workforce in the US. Accurate physician numbers are needed to plan for future health care service requirements. To assess the accuracy of current pathologist workforce estimates in the US by examining why divergency appears in different published resources. This study examined the American Board of Pathology classification for pathologist primary specialty and subspecialties and analyzed previously published reports from the following data sources: the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), a 2013 College of American Pathologists (CAP) report, a commercially available version of the American Medical Assoication (AMA) Physician Masterfile, and an unpublished data summary from June 10, 2019. Number of physicians classified as pathologists. The most recent AAMC data from 2017 (published in 2018) reported 12 839 physicians practicing "anatomic/clinical pathology," which is a subset of the whole. In comparison, the current AMA Physician Masterfile, which is not available publicly, listed 21 292 active pathologists in June 2019. The A...Continue Reading

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