MINNESOTA PHYSICIAN
WORKFORCE DEMOGRAPHICS
Initial analysis for the Foreign-Trained Physician Task Force
July 30, 2014
Age of Minnesota-licensed physicians
40.0
34%
35.0
30.0
25%
25.0
24%
22%
23%
24%
20.0
Minnesota Physicians
16%
15.0
14%
U.S., All Occupations
13%
10.0
5%
5.0
0.0
34 and
younger
35 to 44
45 to 54
55 to 64
65 and older
Source: May 2014 licensing data from the Board of Medical Practice. This count includes all 21,669 physicians who held a valid license in Minnesota in May, 2014.
How big a shortage expected in MN?
• MDH: 1,000 – 3,000 primary care physicians
• U of M: 803, all MD specialties
• MN Hospital Association: 850 primary care physicians
• Robert Graham Center: 1,187 primary care physicians
• Georgetown: 1,000 - 4,000, all MD specialties
• Assoc. of Amer. Medical Colleges: 90,000 nationally
Medical residency “bottleneck”
Race and ethnicity of licensed physicians in Minnesota
Other 3%
Multiple
races 1%
Black 2%
Race
Unknown*
14%
Hispanic/
Latino
2.4%
Ethnicity
Unknown*
14%
Asian 8%
White 72%
NonHispanic
84%
Source: 2013 MDH Physician Workforce Survey. Respondents may choose not to answer certain questions on the survey. 1,399 out of 10,809 (14 percent) did not
answer the survey question about race. 1,388 (13.9 percent) of respondents did not answer the survey question about ethnicity.
Minnesota planning regions
Race of licensed physicians compared to population,
by Minnesota region
Economic Development Region
Share of
physicians of
color in the
region*
Share of persons
Total number of
of color in
licensed
region’s
population, 2010 physicians in
region†
Census
Central
11%
6%
1,070
Northeast
7%
7%
917
Northwest
15%
8%
724
7-County Minneapolis/St. Paul metro
14%
21%
8,632
Southeast
12%
9%
3,064
Southwest
23%
7%
570
Statewide
14%
14.7%
14,977
* Source: 2013 MDH Physician Survey. 1,399 out of 10,809 (14 percent) did not answer the survey question about race. “Physicians of color” include
American Indian, Asian, Black, Native Hawaiian physicians who identify as multiple races, and “other” races.
† Source: May 2014 licensing data from the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice. The data in this column includes only those physicians who
provided a business address in Minnesota (excludes physicians working out of state and who did not provide a business address to the Board.)
Share of Minnesota-licensed physicians
educated outside U.S./Canada
Educated in
Canada
2%
Unknown 0.4%
Educated outside
U.S. and Canada
16%
Educated in U.S.
82%
Source: May, 2014 licensing data from the Board of Medical Practice. The chart above includes 21,669 Minnesota-licensed physicians, 90 of whom
did not report a country of education.
Foreign-trained licensed physicians by Minnesota region
Economic Development Region
Number of U.S.
or CanadianNumber of Total number of
Share of
trained
foreign-trained
licensed
foreign-trained
physicians in physicians in
physicians in
physicians in
region
region
region
region
Central
943
124
1,070
12%
Northeast
844
69
917
8%
Northwest
606
112
724
15%
Seven County Minneapolis/St.
Paul
7,75
1,116
8,632
13%
Southeast
2,473
585
3,064
19%
Southwest
432
135
570
24%
Statewide
12,773
2,141
14,977
14%
Source: May 2014 licensing data from the Board of Medical Practice. Not all licensed physicians are working as physicians. This chart includes only
those physicians who provided a business address that was in Minnesota (excludes 6,692 physicians who were working out of state and/or who did
not provide a business address to the Board).
Foreign-Trained Physicians, by Country of Education
Number
Country of Education Trained
783
India
406
Canada
256
Pakistan
146
Philippines
96
Nigeria
90
China
87
Mexico
80
Germany
78
Ireland
68
Syria
60
Egypt
59
England
57
West Indies
55
Lebanon
54
Dominica
52
Poland
51
Netherlands Antilles
49
Turkey
45
Grenada
44
Iran
43
Colombia
42
Dominican Republic
41
Romania
Country of
Education
Israel
Brazil
USSR
South Africa
Nepal
Peru
Argentina
South Korea
Greece
Italy
Thailand
Russia
Jordan
Hungary
Australia
Netherlands
Ethopia
United Kingdom
Ghana
Bulgaria
Japan
Costa Rica
Bangladesh
Number
Trained
38
37
36
35
34
34
30
30
29
27
27
26
25
24
21
21
20
20
19
17
17
16
15
Country of Education
Ecuador
Kenya
Spain
Sudan
Ukraine
Belgium
Iraq
Sri Lanka
Czechoslovakia
Taiwan
Jamaica
Malta
Chile
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
Cayman Islands
France
Guatemala
Korea
New Zealand
Singapore
Uganda
Other
Number
Trained
15
14
14
14
14
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
10
10
10
9
9
9
9
9
9
8
206
Source:
May 2014
Minnesota
licensing
data from
Board of
Medical
Practice.
This count
includes all
physicians
who are
licensed in
Minnesota.
90 out of
21,669 did
not supply
a country
of
education
and are not
included
here.
Minnesota Physician Specialties
Specialty
General Family Medicine
General Internal Medicine
General Pediatrics
General OB/GYN
General Surgery
Other Surgery
General Psychiatry
General Facility-based
General Other
Subspecialties & Mixed Specialties
No Certification
Total
Trained
in the U.S.
2,446
1,479
760
516
443
1,484
368
2,247
627
3,421
3,993
17,784
Trained in
Canada
Trained outside
U.S. and Canada
35
274
19
517
6
92
4
29
6
48
53
73
7
69
39
162
15
101
78
717
144
1,308
406
3,390
The total number of physicians in the region is based on 2014 licensing data from the Board of Medical Practice. Not all licensed physicians are
working as physicians. The data in this column excludes 2,623 physicians who did not provide a business address to the Board of Medical Practice.
Languages communicated (other than English) for clinical purposes
Language
Spanish
Arabic
Russian
Somali
Hmong
Vietnamese
American Sign Language
Swahili
Amheric
Lao
Oromo
Croatian
Khmer
Other
Share of physicians who
communicate in this
language
8.8%
1.3%
1.0%
0.8%
0.7%
0.5%
0.4%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.1%
5.4%
Share of Minnesota households
w/school-aged children where
this is the primary language*
5.1%
0.3%
0.3%
2.0%
2.4%
0.5%
0.04%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
0.2%
<.01%
0.2%
n/a
Based on responses to the question: “In addition to English, in which languages do you communicate for clinical purposes? [Select all that apply.]
These physicians are not necessarily speaking in the language they report; some may be using interpreters to provide clinical services.
DATA APPENDIX
About this data
• The data in this presentation are from two sources:
• Data on licensed physicians are from the May, 2014 Board of Medical Practice licensing
database. This database includes a total of 21,669 physicians, approximately 69 percent of
whom have Minnesota business location.
• Additional demographic data are from the 2013 MDH Physician Workforce Survey. This
survey is administered to all physicians who are renewing their licenses in the state of
Minnesota. In 2013, the overall response rate was 51.5 percent, which represented 10,809
Minnesota-licensed physicians.
Share of non-white
Minnesota-licensed
physicians, by
county of practice
(Aitkin – Itasca)
NOTES:
*Non-white physicians includes American Indian, Asian,
Black, Native Hawaiian, multiple races, and “other” races.
This information comes from the 2013 MDH Physician
survey. 14% of survey respondents did not answer the
question about race.
† The total number of physicians in the region is based on
2014 licensing data from the Board of Medical Practice.
Not all licensed physicians are working as physicians. The
data in this column excludes 2,623 physicians who did not
provide a business address to the Board of Medical
Practice.
Minnesota
Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Number of nonwhite physicians
1
43
3
5
0
0
13
4
3
18
0
1
3
2
2
0
0
5
39
0
2
0
0
2
7
0
381
0
2
3
1
Non-white
physicians (as
share of all
physicians)
20%
17%
32%
29%
0%
0%
26%
13%
3%
9%
0%
0%
11%
23%
0%
0%
50%
4%
16%
0%
13%
33%
0%
12%
12%
33%
12%
0%
0%
6%
0%
Share of non-white
population
4%
13%
12%
25%
5%
2%
7%
3%
10%
7%
14%
7%
4%
7%
13%
12%
8%
3%
15%
4%
2%
4%
2%
7%
5%
3%
26%
2%
5%
4%
6%
Total number of
physicians
15
300
28
49
2
6
140
30
30
94
9
8
47
13
2
2
2
77
251
3
40
3
3
33
43
3
2688
8
12
48
27
Share of non-white
Minnesota-licensed
physicians, by
county of practice
(Jackson – Pope)
NOTES:
*Non-white physicians includes American Indian, Asian,
Black, Native Hawaiian, multiple races, and “other” races.
This information comes from the 2013 MDH Physician
survey. 14% of survey respondents did not answer the
question about race.
† The total number of physicians in the region is based on
2014 licensing data from the Board of Medical Practice.
Not all licensed physicians are working as physicians. The
data in this column excludes 2,623 physicians who did not
provide a business address to the Board of Medical
Practice.
Minnesota
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Non-white
Number of non- physicians (as share
of all physicians)
white physicians
1
0%
2
0%
3
9%
0
0%
1
10%
0
25%
1
0%
1
0%
2
11%
0
25%
2
25%
0
100%
0
0%
1
26%
3
15%
2
0%
0
14%
0
0%
9
10%
0
75%
2
14%
3
37%
0
0%
177
13%
0
0%
3
29%
1
38%
0
25%
2
29%
0
22%
Share of non-white
population
4%
3%
7%
1%
5%
2%
2%
4%
5%
2%
10%
50%
3%
3%
4%
3%
9%
2%
9%
3%
6%
24%
14%
4%
6%
8%
6%
7%
2%
Total number of
physicians
3
6
70
1
10
4
6
2
9
4
24
2
1
19
40
9
7
18
31
4
21
19
0
1028
21
17
8
4
21
9
Share of non-white
Minnesota-licensed
physicians, by
county of practice
(Ramsey – Yellow Medicine)
NOTES:
*Non-white physicians includes American Indian, Asian,
Black, Native Hawaiian, multiple races, and “other” races.
This information comes from the 2013 MDH Physician
survey. 14% of survey respondents did not answer the
question about race.
† The total number of physicians in the region is based on
2014 licensing data from the Board of Medical Practice.
Not all licensed physicians are working as physicians. The
data in this column excludes 2,623 physicians who did not
provide a business address to the Board of Medical
Practice.
Non-white
Number of non- physicians (as share
of all physicians)
white physicians
84
17%
Red Lake
30%
Total number of
physicians
876
1
0%
0
Redwood
4%
0
0%
11%
5
Renville
2
0%
5%
5
Rice
0
8%
11%
51
Rock
1
25%
4
Roseau
3%
4
30%
10
Scott
6%
2
11%
57
Sherburne
14%
0
17%
6%
41
Sibley
26
0%
5%
1
St. Louis
20
7%
7%
322
Stearns
1
9%
Steele
8%
204
9
12%
33
Stevens
7%
0
8%
13
Swift
6%
10
0%
3%
3
Todd
0
9%
5%
23
Traverse
0
0%
1
Wabasha
6%
0
0%
8
Wadena
3%
0%
3%
16
Waseca
0
0
0%
6%
4
Washington
48
9%
12%
240
Watonwan
0
29%
13%
7
Wilkin
2
20%
5
Winona
3%
2
11%
27
Wright
6%
5
15%
66
Yellow Medicine
5%
3
33%
6%
9
Minnesota
Ramsey
Share of non-white
population
Share of foreigntrained Minnesotalicensed physicians,
by county of
practice
(Aitkin – Itasca)
NOTES:
These counts include physicians who were trained in
Canada as well as other countries.
Based on 2014 licensing data from the Board of Medical
Practice. According to the BMP, there were 14,977
physicians licensed in Minnesota who reported a valid
Minnesota business location. Not all licensed physicians are
working as physicians.
Minnesota
Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Foreign-trained
Percentage of
Number of foreign- physicians (as a share foreign-born people
trained physicians
of all physicians)
in
2
10%
1%
114
21%
7%
14
31%
2%
25
24%
2%
0
0%
2%
0
0%
1%
67
28%
4%
10
22%
2%
0
0%
1%
17
11%
6%
1
7%
1%
3
23%
4%
10
13%
2%
1
5%
3%
3
100%
1%
0
0%
3%
1
13%
5%
11
7%
1%
58
13%
8%
0
0%
3%
12
15%
1%
1
13%
2%
0
0%
1%
19
37%
3%
7
8%
2%
0
0%
1%
723
14%
13%
0
0%
1%
3
14%
2%
5
8%
1%
2
3%
1%
Share of foreigntrained Minnesotalicensed physicians,
by county of
practice
(Jackson – Pope)
NOTES:
These counts include physicians who were trained in
Canada as well as other countries.
Based on 2014 licensing data from the Board of Medical
Practice. According to the BMP, there were 14,977
physicians licensed in Minnesota who reported a valid
Minnesota business location. Not all licensed physicians are
working as physicians.
Minnesota
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Jackson
Foreign-trained
Percentage of
Number of foreign- physicians (as a share foreign-born people
trained physicians
of all physicians)
in county
1
25%
3%
1
6%
1%
14
13%
5%
0
0%
3%
3
19%
5%
1
20%
1%
2
17%
1%
1
33%
3%
1
7%
3%
3
50%
2%
14
33%
5%
2
100%
1%
1
100%
2%
6
16%
2%
9
15%
3%
0
0%
2%
1
8%
1%
1
4%
1%
15
23%
7%
4
67%
2%
6
17%
2%
15
52%
17%
0
0%
2%
628
24%
10%
8
11%
2%
16
62%
2%
3
21%
2%
1
14%
3%
12
36%
2%
1
9%
1%
1
25%
3%
Share of foreigntrained Minnesotalicensed physicians,
by county of
practice
(Ramsey – Yellow Medicine)
NOTES:
These counts include physicians who were trained in
Canada as well as other countries.
Based on 2014 licensing data from the Board of Medical
Practice. According to the BMP, there were 14,977
physicians licensed in Minnesota who reported a valid
Minnesota business location. Not all licensed physicians are
working as physicians.
Minnesota
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Foreign-trained
Percentage of
Number of foreign- physicians (as share of foreign-born people
trained physicians
all physicians)
in county
244
14%
14%
0%
0%
1%
1
13%
2%
0
0%
3%
4
4%
7%
0
0%
2%
5
39%
3%
17
15%
9%
9
14%
3%
2
50%
4%
67
9%
2%
65
13%
4%
5
8%
4%
1
5%
3%
1
20%
2%
2
8%
4%
1
50%
1%
0
0%
1%
0
0%
1%
0
0%
3%
44
10%
6%
2
25%
11%
1
17%
1%
1
2%
3%
18
15%
2%
5
36%
2%
244
14%
14%
0%
0%
1%
1
13%
2%
0
0%
3%
4
4%
7%