RAND STUDY - WORKFORCE REQUIREMENTS AND PROVIDER SUPPLY RELEVANT TO OCULOPLASTIC AND ORBITAL SURGERY

The 1995 RAND study Estimating Eye Care and Workforce Requirements ana lyzes the United States' supply, demand, and need for eyecare provider s. Portions of the RAND study were prepared along traditional ophthalm ic specialty lines. This article extracts and further analyzes those p ortions of the study that are of interest to active subspecialty oculo plastic surgeons. The RAND study results indicate a significant curren t and very probable future oversupply of oculoplastics workforce perso nnel. This oversupply is further exacerbated when a RAND study underes timate of the number of new fellowship-trained oculoplastic surgeons i s corrected.