How Much is Taking Place, and Is It Enough to Prepare a Future Generation of Rural Family Physicians?
Author(s): Roger A Rosenblatt, R Schneeweiss, L Gary Hart, S Casey, C Holly Andrilla, Fredercik M Chen Research center: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center Topics: Physicians, Workforce Report Number: No. 69 Date: 03 / 2002 Determines how much rural family practice training is taking place in the United States. Among the results are that only 33 family medicine residency programs (7.4 percent) are located in rural areas and most of the training sponsored by these programs occurs in rural areas. On the other hand, while more than one-third of the urban programs listed rural training as an important part of their mission, only 2.3 percent of the training they supported took place in rural areas. For the nation as a whole, only 7.5 percent of family medicine residency training occurred in rural areas despite the fact that 22.3 percent of the U.S. population lives in rural places. The report concludes that to the extent that there is a link between the place of training and future practice,
