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The Aging of the Primary Care Physician Workforce: Are Rural Locations Vulnerable?
Large numbers of primary care physicians are nearing retirement as fewer new U.S. medical graduates are choosing primary care careers. This policy brief describes the rural areas of the U.S. where impending retirement threatens access to primary care, and offers potential solutions to the problem.
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The Availability of Family Medicine Residency Training in Rural Locations of the United States
The Future of Family Medicine and Implications for Rural Primary Care Physicians
These two policy briefs focus on rural family medicine residency training and overall trends affecting the rural family medicine pipeline. Family physicians constitute the largest proportion of the rural primary care physician workforce, yet declining student interest in rural family medicine may worsen rural primary care shortages. The briefs identify policy options to remedy these problems.
Contact information:
Mark Doescher, MD, MSPH
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Phone: 206-616-9207
mdoesche@u.washington.edu
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