The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections From 2021 to 2036

Summary Report

"Cited to highlight the projected shortage of surgeons and physicians in the USA, emphasizing the demand for solutions."

Magnitude of post-operative mortality and associated factors among patients who underwent surgery in Wolaita Sodo teaching and referral hospital, SNNPR region, Ethiopia

Tiwabwork Tekalign, Habtamu Balta, Lolemo Kelbiso

Afr. Health Sci., 2021

"Cited to show the global impact of surgeon shortages on post-operative mortality."

The workforce for health in a global context — global shortages and international migration

James Buchan, Gail Tomblin Murphy

Hum. Resour. Health

"Cited to emphasize the severe global shortage of healthcare professionals, including physicians and nurses."

Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development

J Meara, Andrew J M Leather, L Hagander, B Alkire, Nivaldo Alonso, Emmanuel A Ameh

Lancet, 2015

"Cited to underline the global need for surgical care and the associated economic development benefits."

Agent Laboratory: Using LLM agents as research assistants

Samuel Schmidgall, Yusheng Su, Ze Wang, Ximeng Sun, Jialian Wu, Xiaodong Yu

ArXiv, 2025

"Introduced as the speaker's primary research work on developing an end-to-end autonomous research system co-piloted by humans."

AgentRxiv: Towards collaborative autonomous research

Samuel Schmidgall, Michael Moor

ArXiv, 2025

"Presented as a related work focusing on collaborative autonomous research, extending the concept of single-agent research systems."

Surgical foundation models

Samuel Schmidgall, Axel Krieger

Nat. Mach. Intell.

"Highlighted as a research area contributing to reducing the surgeon shortage through advanced robotic assistance."

Surgical foundation models

Samuel Schmidgall, Axel Krieger

Nat. Rev. Urol.

"Highlighted as a research area contributing to reducing the surgeon shortage through advanced robotic assistance."

Surgical Gym

Samuel Schmidgall, Axel Krieger

IEEE Conf. Rec.-Abstr.

"Presented as a specific project contributing to addressing the surgeon shortage."

SRT

Kim, Samuel Schmidgall, Axel Krieger

CoRL

"Presented as a specific project contributing to addressing the surgeon shortage."

SRT-H

Kim, Samuel Schmidgall, Axel Krieger

Sci. Robot.

"Presented as a specific project contributing to addressing the surgeon shortage."

AgentClinic: a multimodal agent benchmark to evaluate AI in simulated clinical environments

Samuel Schmidgall, Rojin Ziaei, Carl Harris, Eduardo Reis, Jeffrey Jopling, Michael Moor

ArXiv, 2024

"Highlighted as a research area contributing to reducing the physician shortage through autonomous medical agents."

Addressing cognitive bias in medical language models

Samuel Schmidgall, Carl Harris, Ime Essien, Daniel Olshvang, Tawsifur Rahman, Ji Woong Kim

ArXiv, 2024

"Highlighted as a research area contributing to reducing the physician shortage by improving medical language models."