Building a future-ready physician workforce: 3 strategic priorities
The physician shortage is a systemic challenge with far-reaching implications for both patients and health system performance. Organizations that still manage physician capacity reactively absorb compounding costs: coverage scrambles, credentialing delays, lost procedural revenue and the slow erosion of physician engagement long before a resignation surfaces.
This whitepaper details how systems like SSM Health, Dartmouth Health and others are deliberately shifting to strategies that improve how the physician workforce is built, deployed and sustained. These strategies point toward a future-ready physician workforce, organized around three priorities: strengthening full-time physician capacity, designing a flexible physician workforce and enabling physician and APP performance through technology.
Key learnings:
This whitepaper details how systems like SSM Health, Dartmouth Health and others are deliberately shifting to strategies that improve how the physician workforce is built, deployed and sustained. These strategies point toward a future-ready physician workforce, organized around three priorities: strengthening full-time physician capacity, designing a flexible physician workforce and enabling physician and APP performance through technology.
Key learnings:
- 75% of physicians report satisfaction in their roles, but far fewer feel meaningfully engaged — and more would discourage others from joining their organization than recommend it.
- Only 23% of healthcare organizations have a formal retention strategy, and fewer than 1 in 3 maintains a comprehensive succession plan.
- Flexible workforce design shows how physician time can be reallocated, extended and supported to match how care is delivered.
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