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Medical Liaison Officer
For this assignment, you examine the trend of hiring more physicians as a Medical Liaison Officer during the 1970s and 1980s. Create a 2 page report to the Board of Directors that discusses the degree to which you feel this kind of system would work in your region today. Your region will be Charleston, West Virginia
- Visit the following Web sites to gather information:
- From these sites, gather information about medical professionals in your region. About how many physicians work at hospitals? Are a large percentage of physicians clustered at specific hospitals? What is known about how much hospital-based physicians make?
- Read the Frenzen article (1991, September), The Increasing Supply of Physicians in U.S. Urban and Rural Areas, 1975 to 1988. American Journal of Public Health, volume 81, issue 9, pages 1141–1147.
Special Instructions:
This 2 page essay needs to be in APA Format. 3 sources are required as references. Be sure to include in-text citations.
Be sure to answer the questions from # 2 and incorporate them in the essay.
The Transcript for the Board of Directors will be linked in the drop box file. Contextualize their opinions also.
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Running Head: HEALTH CARE
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The Limits of Health Care
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The hiring of physicians as medical liaison officers was a common scenario especially in
the 70s and the 80s. This period had a high proportion of these staff both the urban areas,
metropolitan areas and nun-metropolitans areas.
Charleston of West Virginia has a total of 270 environmental scientists and specialist
including health sector. This indicated a rise of 7.5% or a rate of 2.5 per every 1000 jobs.
References
Frenzen, P.D. (1991) The increasing supply of physicians in the US Urban and Rural areas, 1975
to 1988. American Journal of Public Health, 81 (9), 1141-1147
NIH. (2016). Statistics on Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches. U.S. Department
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Bureau of Labor Statistics, (2016). Charleston, WV - May 2015 OES Metropolitan and
Nonmetropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates. Bls.gov. Retrieved
8 February 2017, from https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_16...