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Physician human resources planning toolkit: Four moments in fit-for-purpose physician workforce planning
Health system stakeholders need solid physician human resources planning practices to ensure the right resources are in the right place at the right time to provide the right, high-quality care to patients close to home, and as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.
The goal of health human resources planning is to develop and ensure a fit-for-purpose and future-proofed workforce. Recognizing that different groups will have different needs, experience, and scales of planning requirements, the OMA’s Physician Human Resources Committee created this toolkit to describe and facilitate fit-for-purpose planning across many scenarios.
- Solidarity staffing (eg deployments to/from other jurisdictions)
- Back-up solutions for absenteeism
- Back-fill solutions for staff moving to front-lines
- Cross-sector staff deployments
- Interjurisdictional mobility
- Telehealth/virtual care
- Rapid upskilling/reskilling existing and available workers (eg. laid off)
- Longer term upskilling/reskilling other workers
- Task shifting/delegation
- New roles
- Expanded roles
- Other
- Nurse Practitioners*
- Nurse Specialists*
- Nurses - Licensed Practical
- Nurses - Registered
- Physicians - Emergency
- Physicians - Intensive Care
- Physicians - Primary/Family
- Physicians - Specialists
- Students
Framework to assist physician resource planning
This toolkit was produced by the Ontario Medical Association’s Physician Human Resources Committee.
- Community Health Services
- Critical Care
- Diagnostic Services
- Emergency Medical Services
- Home Care Services
- Hospitals
- Indigenous Health Services
- Long-Term Care
- Mental Health Services
- Primary Health Care
- Public Health
- Urban/Suburban
- Rural
- Remote
Formal Strategy
Ontario Medical Association
Canada - Ontario