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1 Thoracic surgery workforce: snapshot at the end of the twentieth century and implications for the new millennium  Richard J. Shemin, MD, Stanley W. Dziuban, MD, Larry R. Kaiser, MD, James E. Lowe, MD, William C. Nugent, MD, Mehmet C. Oz, MD, Donald A. Turney, MBA, Jaimie K. Wallace, MPS  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 73, Issue 6, Pages (June 2002) DOI: /S (02)

2 Fig 1 The age distribution of thoracic surgeons in active practice. Mean = 50.0; median = 49.0. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

3 Fig 2 The mean age of respondents to Thoracic Surgery Workforce Surveys performed in 1976, 1980, 1985, 1992, and Sources for past year’s data are previous Workforce Reports [19–23]. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

4 Fig 3 The age distribution of retired survey respondents. The surgeons that retired within a year of the survey approximate current retirement ages. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

5 Fig 4 (A) Career satisfaction among active, recently retired (within 1 year of the survey), and remotely retired thoracic surgeons. (B) Career satisfaction among thoracic surgeons segregated by specialty self-designation. (AC = adult cardiac; GT = general thoracic; PC = pediatric cardiac.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

6 Fig 5 (A) Length of training: years of thoracic surgical training after medical school. (B) Distribution of length of training during four distinct decades the respondents graduated from medical school. Group means: 1950 to 1959 = 8.3; 1960 to 1969 = 8.4; 1970 to 1979 = 8.4; 1980 to 1989 = 8.4; x2 = The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

7 Fig 6 Analysis of education debt by the decade respondents graduated from medical school. Educational debt is not adjusted for inflation. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

8 Fig 7 (A) Case volume distribution among all active thoracic surgeon respondents. (B) Case volume distribution for thoracic surgeons performing only pediatric cardiac (PC), only adult cardiac (AC), and only general thoracic (GT) surgery. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

9 Fig 8 Map demonstrating the states in each geographic region.
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10 Fig 9 (A) Legal forms of practice organization. (B) Regional distribution of legal forms of practice organization. (C) Regional distribution of for-profit and not-for-profit corporations. Note: nationally, 77% of corporations are for-profit and 23% are not-for-profit. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

11 Fig 10 Regional distribution of teaching involvement by thoracic surgeons. Note: nationally, only 35% of surgeon respondents were associated with teaching in a cardiothoracic training program. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

12 Fig 11 (A) Regional distribution of malpractice insurance premiums. Note: there was insufficient response to Rocky Mountain results. (B) Specialty self-designation and insurance premium costs. (AC = adult cardiac; GT = general thoracic; PC = pediatric cardiac.) (C) Mode of practice and insurance premium costs. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

13 Fig 12 Distribution of the number of years actively practicing thoracic surgeons plan to remain in practice before retirement. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

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