Closing the Chasm: Understanding and Addressing the Anesthesia Workforce Supply and Demand Imbalance

The bottom line

Anesthesiology reports the highest intent-to-leave of any academic specialty, and the drivers compound: an aging workforce, shrinking hours, and demand growth are converging into a durable supply-demand gap. Leaders should plan staffing models around a structurally tight market rather than a temporary shortage. As a review, its headline figures inherit the limitations of underlying surveys that are not fully traceable here.

What the source found

Anesthesiology review citing anesthesiology as specialty with highest reported intent to leave current practice within two years among academic physicians; connects to aging workforce and reduced physician work hours over past two decades.

Limitations and applicability

Review article; specific underlying data sources for intent-to-leave figures not fully traceable from this summary.

Population and setting

U.S. anesthesiologists (academic and community practice)

Used in FairShare guides

• Retention and the Anesthesia Workforce

About this evidence

Research question / practical issue

How does this source inform Retention and the Anesthesia Workforce for the population it studied?

Study design, evidence tier, and source class

Peer Reviewed Article · primary source · evidence tier 1

Source type: Peer Reviewed Article · primary · Evidence tier 1

Topics: Retention and the Anesthesia Workforce

Audience: Anesthesiologists, Department Leaders