Tracking Trainee Movement: A Scalable Framework for Analyzing Geographic Retention in Graduate Medical Education.

ABSTRACT: Background Geographic maldistribution of the physician workforce persists, despite substantial investment in expanding graduate medical education (GME). Training programs remain concentrated in urban centers, and physicians often practice near where they train, reinforcing regional imbalances in workforce distribution. Understanding trainee mobility patterns is essential for identifying how uneven resource distribution perpetuates workforce shortages in underserved areas and developing targeted interventions to improve geographic disparities in physician supply. Objective To develop and apply a scalable framework for evaluating regional retention and mobility patterns of physician trainees across 3 sequential stages of GME using ophthalmology as an exemplar specialty. Meth

SUBMITTER: Garten B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12710376 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature