Educating Minnesota's Future Health Professions Workforce

Areas of Minnesota, both rural and urban, have significant shortages of health care providers, especially in primary care. This shortage will only grow larger as baby boomers grow older, both because they will retire from the health care workforce and they will require more health services.

This is the first of three reports produced by the University’s Academic Heath Center during 2008. The report is designed to provide a greater understanding of the projected health professional needs of our aging and increasingly diverse population.

Educating Minnesota’s Future Health Professions Workforce: 2008 Update

• Executive Summary
• Report
• Appendices

Academic Health Center Health Professions Workforce Strategy
(A detailed grid by profession)

Population Growth vs. Class Size Growth: The Challenge (Single chart)

Primary Care in Minnesota: An Academic Health Center Perspective

Options for Increasing the Supply of Primary Care Physicians in Rural Minnesota - Prepared by Ira Moscovice, Ph.D. and Michelle Casey, M.S., Rural Health Research Center, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota