The Israeli anesthesiology workforce crisis: a reassessment survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anesthesiologists provide crucial anesthesiology services in the operating room and non-operating room locations. Combined with an aging and growing Israeli population, there is an increasing demand for anesthesiology services. A previous study performed in 2005 showed that most anesthesiologists are immigrant physicians with few Israeli medical school graduates. Since then, physician immigration decreased, many have retired and demand for anesthesia services has increased while insufficient numbers of new anesthesiologists were trained, leading to a shortage, limiting surgeries and other procedures in many hospitals. The present study examined the composition of the Israeli anesthesiology workforce in 2021and compared it to the 2005 workforce.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Wimpfheimer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11406861 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature