Preparing Physicians for Rural Practice: Availability of Rural Training in Rural-Centric Residency Programs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exposing residents to rural training encourages future rural practice, but unified accreditation of allopathic and osteopathic graduate medical education under one system by 2020 has uncertain implications for rural residency programs.

Objective

We describe training locations and rural-specific content of rural-centric residency programs (requiring at least 8 weeks of rurally located training) before this transition.

Methods

In 2015, we surveyed residency programs that were rurally located or had rural tracks in 7 specialties and classified training locations as rural or urban using Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) codes.

Results

Of 1849 residencies in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology,

SUBMITTER: Patterson DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6795329 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature