Finally, we approach the workforce and services modelling from a perspective of delivering an uncompromised and ideal workforce and services model that is not necessarily tied to existing conceptualisations of workforce, professions, skill mix, service structures or funding.
We need to ensure our workforce, our profession, gets as much support as any other".
Although it is still a relatively young medical workforce, the PA profession is growing older - a reflection of similar trends in other professions and in the nation's population in general.
Estimates are that nearly 8% of the teaching workforce leaves the profession annually, the vast majority leaving before retirement age.
We urgently need a new system -- one that provides competitive salaries from the start, and opportunity for growth, attracting talented people entering the workforce to the profession.
A recent publication from dentistry examined county-level health profession workforce characteristics (i.e., percentage of female physicians, obstetricians or gynecologists, female dentists) as potential correlates of dentists' counseling pregnant patients about prevention and periodontal disease risk [ 11].
The report, based on government data analyzed by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, shows that professions that depend heavily on skills learned in these fields are the second-fastest growing occupational group in the United States, after health care.
But a country that truly holds care as a national value and holds up the workforce as a real profession must embrace the full diversity of who we are, who we're becoming as we change, and what connects us.
In 2014, women made up 41% of the profession's workforce at the most junior rank of a Part I qualified architectural assistant, and the percentage falls steadily as roles become more senior.
We show that although female physicians do not represent yet the majority of the medical workforce, feminization of the profession is under way in the three locations analysed, as women are presently over-represented in younger age groups.
