Growing a rural family physician workforce: The contributions of rural background and rural place of residency training.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the distinct influences of rural background and rural residency training on rural practice choice among family physicians.

Data sources and study setting

We used a subset of The RTT Collaborative rural residency list and longitudinal data on family physicians from the American Board of Family Medicine National Graduate Survey (NGS; three cohorts, 2016-2018) and American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS).

Study design

We conducted a logistic regression, computing predictive marginals to assess associations of background and residency location with physician practice location 3 years post-residency.

Data collection/extraction methods

We merged NGS data with residency type-rural or urban-and practice location with AMCAS data on rur

SUBMITTER: Patterson DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10771894 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature