An Approach to Planning for Physician Requirements in Developing Countries Using Dynamic Programming
Fidelis M. Ikem, Arnold M. Reisman
Operations Research · 1990 · Volume 38 · Issue 4
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
dynamic programming: capacity planning for training of physicians, government, services: manpower planning in developing countries, planning, government: physician planning requirements in developing countries
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