Analysis: Rural rheumatology workforce to reach less than 19% adequacy by 2037

An analysis of health care workforce data projected significant shortages of rheumatologists in the United States, particularly in the South and non-metropolitan areas, by 2037, according to findings published in Arthritis Care & Research. “We noticed long wait times and difficulty among our patients in accessing rheumatologists at our institution,” Jason Silvestre, MD, of the