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

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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.

Ernest Blake Fagan, Claire Gibbons, Sean C. Finnegan, et al.

Family Medicine, 47(2), 124-130

02/2015

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Graduate medical education · Health workforce supply and demand · Physicians · Policy · Primary care