Policy challenges for the pediatric rheumatology workforce: Part II. Health care system delivery and workforce supply

Table 1 Projected US Pediatric Rheumatology (PR) Workforce Trends

	% Workforce	Number of PRs	PRs/million children
Total board-certified PRs in the US*	100%	242	3.3
PRs providing any clinical care^†	92%	223	3.0
PRs who spend >90% of their time seeing patients	77%	186	2.5
Projected PRs after clinical work decline^§	82%	198	2.7

Projections are based on a US population of 74 million children.
*270 ABP-certified PRs - (13 PRs practicing abroad + 6 retired + 5 employed in the pharmaceutical industry + 4 not practicing PR) = 270 - 28 = 242 US PRs.
^†US PRs engaged in full time research = 20. 242 - 20 = 222 US PRs.
^§One third reduction in clinical work by 32% of all PRs = (0.33 × 0.32) = overall 10% reduction.
(92% -10%) = 82% remaining workforce.

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