Recently physicians, the federal government, and medical specialty societies have shown increasing interest in manpower needs in medicine and in the medical specialties. Since 1976 the Joint Task Force on Pathology Manpower of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the College of American Pathologists, and the Association of Pathology Chairmen has completed and published three reports on Pathology manpower supply and demand. The results of these studies agree with a recently completed study by a federally mandated commission. These studies show Pathology manpower in the early 1980s is in good balance between supply and demand. They also indicate this equilibrium will continue until 1990 unless unanticipated changes in supply and demand take place.
