This webinar will explore career transitions across the professional life course, with a particular focus on navigating the move from a PhD program to a first postdoctoral or professional role, as well as later-stage transitions across sectors. Speakers will share practical insights on shifting between government service, consulting or contracting roles, academia, and nonprofit organizations,…
This webinar presents results from a national study examining turnover among rehabilitation therapy staff—physical therapists, occupational therapists and assistants, and speech-language pathologists—working in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) from July 2020 to September 2023. Using CMS administrative data, we describe therapy staff turnover trends, identify facility characteristics linked to higher turnover, and assess how turnover affects…
This webinar, Innovative State Workforce Projections Models, will highlight how states have used workforce projection models to understand and forecast healthcare workforce needs. Presenters will demonstrate how these tools integrate state-level data to assess supply, demand, and emerging gaps across key healthcare occupations. Using examples from Virginia and North Carolina, the session will illustrate how these…
To better inform physician workforce policy, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has partnered with researchers at RAND to develop a new physician workforce projections model. Using a system dynamics methodology, this new model represents a leap forward in scope, flexibility, and potential. In this webinar, the AAMC and RAND will present an introduction…
Medicaid beneficiaries are disproportionately concentrated in the most socially vulnerable areas in the United States. This webinar discusses a national study using Medicaid claims data to examine how zip code–level social vulnerability influences primary care utilization, and the important role of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in addressing access gaps for the Medicaid population.
This webinar features 2 presentations examining the role of travel nurses. Eric Luo discusses findings from a study linking higher levels of travel and overtime nurse hours to increased rates of pressure ulcers. LaTonya Trotter shares insights from interviews with travel nurses, highlighting how short-term contract work is reshaping nursing by redefining autonomy, expertise, and…
