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Home Research Research Library The Essential Role of Family Physicians in Providing Cesarean Sections in Rural Communities The Essential Role of Family Physicians in Providing Cesarean Sections in Rural Communities 2021 Author(s) Tong, Sebastian T, Eden, Aimee R, Morgan, Zachary J, Bazemore, Andrew W, and Peterson, Lars E Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Continuing Certification Questionnaire, JABFM Policy Brief, Maternity Care, Population Health, Rural, Shortage Areas, and Visiting Scholar/Fellow Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Of family physicians who perform cesarean sections, more than half do so in rural communities and 38.6% provide cesarean sections in counties without any obstetrician/gynecologists. As policymakers in the United States struggle with a widening landscape of ‘obstetrical deserts,’ efforts to adequately train a family physician workforce prepared to provide cesarean sections could help maintain access to local obstetric services in rural communities and reduce perinatal morbidity and mortality. ABFM Research Read all 2014 Health is Primary: Family Medicine for America’s Health Go to Health is Primary: Family Medicine for America’s Health 2020 Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians Go to Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians 2021 Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification Go to Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification 2014 A Retrospective Analysis of the Relationship between Medical Student Debt and Primary Care Practice in the United States. Go to A Retrospective Analysis of the Relationship between Medical Student Debt and Primary Care Practice in the United States.
Author(s) Tong, Sebastian T, Eden, Aimee R, Morgan, Zachary J, Bazemore, Andrew W, and Peterson, Lars E Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Continuing Certification Questionnaire, JABFM Policy Brief, Maternity Care, Population Health, Rural, Shortage Areas, and Visiting Scholar/Fellow Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2014 Health is Primary: Family Medicine for America’s Health Go to Health is Primary: Family Medicine for America’s Health 2020 Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians Go to Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians 2021 Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification Go to Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification 2014 A Retrospective Analysis of the Relationship between Medical Student Debt and Primary Care Practice in the United States. Go to A Retrospective Analysis of the Relationship between Medical Student Debt and Primary Care Practice in the United States.
2014 Health is Primary: Family Medicine for America’s Health Go to Health is Primary: Family Medicine for America’s Health
2020 Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians Go to Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians
2021 Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification Go to Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification
2014 A Retrospective Analysis of the Relationship between Medical Student Debt and Primary Care Practice in the United States. Go to A Retrospective Analysis of the Relationship between Medical Student Debt and Primary Care Practice in the United States.
