Kentucky's Primary Care Workforce Shortages 2016-2025 and Recommendations for Increasing the Production of Primary Care Physicians for Kentucky

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Presents data and information about the Kentucky primary care workforce, describes trainee pipelines supplying new physicians, and recommends strategies and tactics for improving this workforce. Includes statistics on various types of primary care providers in rural Kentucky, and support for the idea that rural background and rural clinical rotations are factors in primary care career choices by medical school graduates.

Kevin A. Pearce, Carol Hustedde, Linda M. Asher, et al.

11/2016

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University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Graduate medical education · Health workforce supply and demand · Physicians · Primary care · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Kentucky