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CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Volume 36, Issue 4, Pages 1350-1353Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318169ecee
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critical care workforce
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Objective: The recent Health Resources and Services Administration report on critical care manpower details the impending crisis in the critical care workforce in the United States. Design: A review of the Health Resources and Services Administration statistics indicate the present structure for training critical care physicians through combined pulmonary/critical care fellowships is, and will remain, woefully inadequate to meet demand. Intervention: Training for intensive care unit physicians will require new paradigms for training, including consideration of free-standing critical care residencies and multidisciplinary critical care fellowships. Conclusion: Unless the training structure changes, the worsening shortage of intensivists will precipitate a crisis, resulting in the disintegration of critical care delivery in the United States.
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