Despite the rising number of physicians in the US, even relative to the size of the population,
physicians continue to disproportionately locate their practices in urban areas. In 1965, there …

Introduction: There is major maldistribution of physicians in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC). While 70% of Congolese live in rural areas, relatively few doctors practice …

More than 75 percent of Kentucky's counties are considered to be health profession
shortage areas, having far too few primary care physicians. Despite a recent increase in the …

Objective.—To examine the hypothesis that medical schools vary systematically and
predictably in the proportion of their graduates who enter rural practice. Design.—The …

Rural populations remain underserved by physicians, despite various efforts by medical
schools and other institutions/organizations to correct this disparity. We examined the …

Although rural‐based graduate medical education is critically important in the training of
competent rural family physicians, the number of physicians selecting these programs is …

The shortage of primary care physicians1 in the United States (US), especially in rural areas,
is a decades old problem, and one that is worsening (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Similar shortages in the …

Purpose Despite continued federal and state efforts to increase the number of physicians in
rural areas, disparities between the supply of rural and urban physicians persist. The …

While there is good evidence that decisions regarding practice site are influenced by
experience in medical school and residency, medical education constitutes only one of a …

To overcome the shortage of rural physicians, a number of medical schools with rural health
missions have developed community-oriented educational programs, acknowledging the …