Objectives: To summarize the responses to the Center's New York State Physician Licensure Re-registration Survey and present the most current profile available of the demographic characteristics and supply and distribution of physicians licensed in New York. The Center provides up-to-date information to policy makers, educators, and other interested parties, with which to assess the physician workforce in their community and region, and across the state.

NOTE: Due to continual improvements in the methodology employed to account for non-responding physicians and missing data, data are NOT comparable across reports.

Program Dates: June 1996 - present

Staff: Gaetano Forte (Program Manager), David Armstrong, Jean Moore, Robert Martiniano, Sandra McGinnis, Tracey Continelli, Mark Dionne, Maria Kouznetsova*, Paul Wing*, Edward Salsberg*, Michael Dill*, Mark Beaulieu*, Bonnie Quickenton*, Joseph Nolan*, Teresa Zielinski*

Components: The main data collection component of this program is the ongoing New York State Physician Licensure Re-registration Survey administered to physicians every two years as they re-register their licenses with the New York State Education Department. Over the last several years, response to the survey has approached 85%.

In late 2007, the Center initiated a new component for this program that attempts to assess the balance between physician supply and demand over the next couple of decades. A report based on this component is expected in 2009.

Reports/Presentations:

NOTE: Due to continual improvements in the methodology employed to account for non-responding physicians and missing data, data are NOT comparable across reports.

Armstrong DP and Forte GJ. Annual New York Physician Workforce Profile, 2008 Edition. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. December 2008.
Full report:nyphysprofile2008.zip(3.33MB)
Abridged report:nyphysprofile2008abr.zip(2.12 MB)

Armstrong DP and Forte GJ. Annual New York Physician Workforce Profile, 2007 Edition. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. December 2007. Updated 16/04/2008
Full report:nyphysprofile2007.zip(5.63MB)
Abridged report:nyphysprofile2007abr.zip(4.03 MB)

Armstrong DP and Forte GJ. Annual New York Physician Workforce Profile, 2006 Edition. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. December 2006.
Full report:nyphysprofile2006.zip(5.51MB)
Abridged report:nyphysprofile2006abr.zip(3.98MB)

Forte GJ, McGinnis SL, Armstrong DP, and Moore J. A Profile of New York's Underrepresented Minority Physicians, 2006. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. June 2006.
Full report:urmny2006.zip(193 KB)
Summary:urmny2006sum.pdf(140 KB)

Martiniano R, Moore J, Armstrong D, Continelli T, McGinnis S, and Forte G. Changing Practice Patterns of Obstetricians/Gynecologists in New York. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. April 2006.
Full report:obgynny2006.zip(134 KB)

Armstrong DP and Forte GJ. Physician Supply and Distribution in New York, 2004. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. January 2006.
Full report (color):nyphysd2004.zip(1.41 MB)
Full report (black and white):nyphysdbw2004.zip(1.24 MB)
Regional report:nyphysdreg2004.pdf(470 KB)

Nolan J, Forte GJ, Salsberg E, Beaulieu M, and Dionne M. The New York City Physician Workforce, 2000: Profile of the Supply and Distribution of Physicians Practicing in NYC in 2000: Profiles by Borough, Neighborhood, and Specialty. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. January 2004.
Full report:nycprofile2004.zip(759 KB)

Forte GJ, Dionne M, Beaulieu M, and Salsberg E. Profile of New York State Physicians. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. April 2001.
Full report:profile2001.zip(2.62 MB)

Schreiber S, Salsberg ES, Forte GJ, and Beaulieu M. The Characteristics of Medicaid Fee for Service Primary Care Physicians Not Participating in the New York State Medicaid Managed Care Program. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. January 2001.
Full report:npmmc2001.zip(559 KB)

Forte GJ and Salsberg ES. "Women in Medicine in New York State: Preliminary Findings from the 1997-2000 New York State Physician Licensure Re-Registration Survey." News of New York (Newsletter of the Medical Society of the State of New York) Vol. 54(9): 7, 13. September 1999.

Forte GJ, Salsberg ES, and Beaulieu M. Primary Care Physicians in New York State Not Participating in Medicaid Managed Care: A Preliminary Analysis. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. March 1999.

Dill M, Wing P, and Salsberg ES. The Physician Workforce in Texas, California, and New York, A Comparative Analysis. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. February 1999.

Dill M, Salsberg ES, Dionne MG, and Wing P. The Supply, Distribution, and Education of Physicians, A Comparative Study of California and New York. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. July 1998.

Wing P, Salsberg ES, Dionne MG, and Zielinski T. The Supply and Distribution of Physicians in New York State in 1995. Albany, NY: NYS Department of Health. December 1997.

Sponsors: New York State Department of Health, New York State Education Department

* Not currently on CHWS staff.