The Future Pediatric Subspecialty Physician Workforce: Meeting the Needs of Infants, Children, and Adolescents

by Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Health and Medicine Division, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences, Engineering

Pediatric subspecialists are critical to ensuring quality care and pursuing research to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for children. However, there are substantial disincentives to pursuing a career as a pediatric subspecialist, which are often heightened for individuals from groups underrepresented in medicine, and more effective collaboration with primary care clinicians is needed. Changing health care needs, increasing care complexity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309708400
• ISBN13: 9780309708401
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"