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September 23, 2003
A: FROM MENTOR LESLIE WAITE
IN CA
Hey Brittany;
One site that gives percentages sorted by gender and specialty
for
working physicians is on the Minnesota Department of Public
Health
page. It is a pdf file, so it requires acrobat reader.
Obviously, this information is about physicians in Minnesota.
But
there is really no reason to believe that the distribution
of
physicians will be dramatically different in Minnesota than
it is
nationwide, so this should be a pretty good guide. the link
to the
pdf file is:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/chs/rhpc/PDFdocs/mdprofile.pdf
They also have a number of other professions that they keep
statistics on (nurses, pharmacists, etc). You can find them
all by
going to the health statistics page and putting "workforce
profile"
into the search box on the upper left. Their statistics page
is at:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/stats.html
The excellent AMA page that Joan refers to also has information
on
residents sorted by specialty (the links on the left). Reading
this
can give you an indication of how things are likely to change
in the
future, since residents are in their last step of training
before
entering the work force, and therefore represent future doctors.
Happy reading!
Leslie
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September 19, 2003
A: FROM MENTOR JOAN LUSK IN
RI
The American Medical Associationhas statistics on line - for
example, 7.6% of physicians were women in 1970 but 24.6% were
in 2001. (I don't mean to imply there were a lot of sex-change
operations! Obviously, new physicians were more likely to
be women.).
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/article/171-195.html
The American Medical Association also sells a book of data
for $40 - you might find a copy in a university or medical
library - The Health Professions Education Data Book, 2003-2004
includes 22 tables of data for nearly 6,000 educational programs
in 57 allied health professions:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/printcat/10250.html
I didn't find similar statistics by gender on other health
care occupations, but I did find a page at the Bureau of Labor
Statistics giving pay scales and numbers of people in a long
list of such occupations. Some past questions asked about
salaries, so I thought I might as well add this link.
http://www.bls.gov/oes/2001/oes290000.htm
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