The Four Pillars for Primary Care Physician Workforce Reform: A Blueprint for Future Activity

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Presents a framework to guide efforts to increase the supply of primary care physicians. The framework covers four areas: workforce pipeline, medical education, practice transformation, and payment reform. The first pillar discusses the importance of the medical school admissions committee. Selecting applicants from rural backgrounds and those students with lower income expectations or from lower socioeconomic status is just one predictor of medical students who will eventually pursue a career in primary care.

Annals of Family Medicine, 12(1), 83-87

01/2014

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Health workforce education and training · Health workforce pipeline · Physicians · Primary care