An Approach to Planning for Physician Manpower Requirements in Developing Countries Using Dynamic Programming

Authors

Fidelis Madeke Ikem
Arnold Reisman

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

1-1-1990

Abstract

Physician manpower requirements of most developing countries can often be met by developing local training facilities, sending indigenes to train abroad, and/or by recruiting expatriate physicians. Foreign training and having expatriates often involve expenditures of scarce foreign exchange in competition with other development projects. This paper develops a manpower planning model which coordinates physician manpower requirements of a developing country with its capacity to train such physicians along with national objectives to contain costs. The paper presents computational results from a dynamic programming model using the best data available from Nigeria.

Keywords

Operations research, Dynamic programming, Manpower planning, Physicians--Supply and demand--Nigeria, Developing countries--Medical care, Physicians--Developing countries

Publication Title

Technical Memorandums from the Department of Operations, School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Issue

Technical memorandum no. 658

Rights

This work is in the public domain and may be freely downloaded for personal or academic use

Recommended Citation

Ikem, Fidelis Madeke and Reisman, Arnold, "An Approach to Planning for Physician Manpower Requirements in Developing Countries Using Dynamic Programming" (1990). Research Reports from the Department of Operations. 50.
https://commons.case.edu/wsom-ops-reports/50