Colloque - Physician Transitions in and out of Clinical Practice and into Retirement

Stimuler la réflexion, s’ouvrir à de nouvelles perspectives, suivre l’actualité des recherches, des pratiques et des initiatives en santé publique, débattre: autant de fonctions remplies par les colloques du Département épidémiologie et systèmes de santé (DESS). Lors de chaque session, des spécialistes d’horizons divers viennent présenter l’état de leurs recherches, leurs expériences ou leurs projets.

Ces colloques, ouverts au public, s’adressent à un large public de professionnelles et professionnels de la santé. Ils sont recommandés par la Société suisse des spécialistes en prévention et santé publique (SPHD) pour la reconnaissance de la formation continue.

Abstract

Countries around the world invest significant funds to train and support the physician workforce yet we lack a good understanding of how physician careers evolve and how, and when, to intervene to shape them. 

Drawing on annual physician licensure (registration) data between 2005 and 2024 from North Carolina in the United States, we investigate the effect of age, generational cohort and gender on two separate and mutually exclusive transitions: physician moves in and out of clinical practice and into retirement after controlling for physician race/ethnicity, specialty and calendar year fixed effects. 

Speaker

Dr. Erin Fraher PhD MPP is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) where she is the Director of the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center. 

Her research focuses on graduate medical education, interprofessional teams in new models of care, developing rigorous methodologies to project how many health workers will be needed under different possible “futures,” and using life course theory to better understand health professionals’ career trajectories.