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Future Trends: Health Professions and Careers

Future Trends: Health Professions and Careers. Presented to Labour Market Conference July 2014 Pamela Cawley Dean of Health Sciences Douglas College . Health Care .

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Future Trends: Health Professions and Careers

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  1. Future Trends: Health Professions and Careers Presented to Labour Market Conference July 2014 Pamela Cawley Dean of Health Sciences Douglas College

  2. Health Care • Total spending on health care in Canada was projected to reach $200 billion in 2011 and in 2013 health care spending reached 211 billion.

  3. Overview of System Drivers • Population Age • Well elderly/knowledgeable • Chronic conditions • Population Knowledge • Quantified Self • Population Culture: Transformational

  4. Overview of System Drivers • Models of Care • Curative, Preventative, Restorative, Integrative • Less time in institutions (hospital care) • Increase in community and interprofessional care

  5. Overview of System Drivers • Health Conditions • Mental Health and substance challenges • Chronicity • Technology • Changing Health Care Provider Workforce • Regulation/credentialing

  6. Future Health Care Providers Knowledge, Skills, Abilities • Education • Across the spectrum – certificates, diplomas, degrees, post graduate • Science base plus a broader knowledge • Emotional Intelligence • Communication, interpersonal, interprofessional • Life long learning • Intellectual/innovative curiosity • Adaptability • Technology

  7. CIHI Health Professions Twenty Seven Health Care Professions studied on an ongoing basis http://www.cihi.ca/

  8. CIHI Classified Health Care Providers • Audiologists • Chiropractors • Dental – dentists, dental hygienists, assistants • Dietitians • Environmental and Public Health • Health Information Management • Pharmacist • Physician • Psychologists • Nursing: RN, RPN, Nurse Practitioner, LPN, Health Care Support Worker • Medical Laboratory Technologists • Medical Physicists • Medical Imaging • Midwives • Occupational Therapists • Physiotherapists • Optometry: Optometrists, Opticians • Respiratory Therapists

  9. Future Health Care Provider Trends….2025 • Physicians/Physicians Assistants • Anticipate a change in ration from 1.8/1000 to 1.4 per 1000 • Greatest shift in family practice • Geographical disparity

  10. Future Health Care Provider Trends….2025 • Nursing • Range of the term “nurse” difficult for public and consumer – wide range of knowledge, skills and abilities • 2010 data 269,000 Registered Nurses (degree as entry to practice or 7.7 nurses per 1,000 population). Males in nursing has remained steady over the years – approximately 6%

  11. Future Health Care Provider Trends….2025 • Shift to increased range – LPN’s HCSW (various titles)-regulation changing. • Salaries increased significantly over 10 year period for nurses in practice – 55 – 90K – producing an issue with nurses going into education and research • RPN • Nurse Practitioner

  12. Future Health Care Provider Trends….2025 • Supply and Demand • Vast majority of health care professions are demonstrating an adequate rate of supply and demand • Professions increasing by 50% or more: physiotherapists (53%), pharmacists (54%), dietitians (56%), optometrists (58%), chiropractors (75%), respiratory therapists (81%), medical physicists (83%), occupational therapists (88%), dental hygienists (102%), social workers (163%)

  13. Future Health Care Provider Trends….2025 • Supply and Demand • Average age in vast majority of health care provider roles is 35 – 45 yrs. of age. Physicians, RPNs, RNs and Med Lab Tech at the top end of age in workforce (55 yrs. Plus) • Percentage of workforce that is part time remains steady – may be choice or availability (22% of workforce) with an increase in GP’s, dentists, psychologists, and dental hygienists.

  14. Future Health Care Provider Trends….2025 • Emerging Trends • Health Technology/analytics/big data – emerging market: electronic health records, privacy, data security • Biomedical Engineering and Innovation • Simulation • Health Business/Policy/Insurance

  15. Future Health Care Provider Trends….2025 • Emerging Trends • Community Based Care – Pharmacy • Chronicity/Disability specialists • Health and Wellness Markets- Kinesiology/Physiotherapy • Fitness Specialist • Public Health and Safety • Rural and Cultural/Global Health

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