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Family Medicine Graduate Proximity to Their Site of Training: Policy Options for Improving the Distribution of Primary Care Access

Description
Assesses the geographic relationship between graduate practice location and family medicine graduate medical education training sites. Results show an uneven geographic distribution between urban and rural primary care physicians. Report also states that family physicians are more likely to work in rural areas.
Author(s)
Ernest Blake Fagan, Claire Gibbons, Sean C. Finnegan, et al.
Citation
Family Medicine, 47(2), 124-130
Date
02/2015
Type
Document
Tagged as
Graduate medical education · Health workforce supply and demand · Physicians · Policy · Primary care