Rural Workforce Years: Quantifying the Rural Workforce Contribution of Family Medicine Residency Graduates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rural regions of the United States continue to experience a disproportionate shortage of physicians compared to urban regions despite decades of state and federal investments in workforce initiatives. The graduate medical education system effectively controls the size of the physician workforce but lacks effective mechanisms to equitably distribute those physicians.

Objective

We created a measurement tool called a "rural workforce year" to better understand the rural primary care workforce. It quantifies the rural workforce contributions of rurally trained family medicine residency program graduates and compares them to contributions of a geographically matched cohort of non-rurally trained graduates.

Methods

We identified graduates in both cohorts and trac

SUBMITTER: Meyers P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7771603 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature