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Majority Of Family Physicians Still Choose To Practice In The State Where They Were Trained

Author(s)

Topmiller, Michael, Peterson, Lars E, Bazemore, Andrew W, Carrozza, Mark A, Grandmont, Jené, and Jabbarpour, Yalda

Topic(s)

Education & Training, and Family Medicine Certification

Keyword(s)

Graduate Medical Education, and Visiting Scholar/Fellow

Volume

Health Affairs

Source

Health Affairs

Given the recent expansion of US family medicine residency programs, we updated data on the link between training location and practice location and explored its relationship with primary care capacity. We found that most family physicians practice near their residency training programs, and many high-retention states have low primary care physician capacity.

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