The task force has 11 physician members, and one resident and one medical student round out the group. The group will plan a summit to identify strategies to boost the primary care physician workforce in Minnesota and will partner with others to raise policy makers’ and the public’s awareness of the shortage, among other goals, according to the report.
Minnesota’s physician population is aging rapidly and getting closer to retirement age — according to the Echo Press, more than one-third of the state’s primary care physicians were 55 years old or older in 2011, raising worries of an increased physician shortage in the coming years.
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