Emergency medicine physician workforce attrition differences by age and gender.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency care workforce concerns have gained national prominence given recent data suggesting higher than previously estimated attrition. With little known regarding characteristics of physicians leaving the workforce, we sought to investigate the age and number of years since residency graduation at which male and female emergency physicians (EPs) exhibited workforce attrition.

Methods

We performed a repeated cross-sectional analysis of EPs reimbursed by Medicare linked to date of birth and residency graduation date data from the American Board of Emergency Medicine for the years 2013-2020. Stratified by gender, our primary outcomes were the median age and number of years since residency graduation at the time of attrition, defined as the last year during the st

SUBMITTER: Gettel CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10973949 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature