A new committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in partnership with the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, has begun assessing solutions to a significant shortage of pediatric health care workers, especially pediatric subspecialists, which the committee said will impede pediatric patients from receiving quality care and will decrease the field’s overall expertise in the long term. An overall health care workforce shortage has concerned some experts for years, and pandemic-related retirements and resignations drove...