title: Employment of MEDEX graduates and trainees. Five-year progress report for the United States.
abstract: The MEDEX approach to the training and deployment of physician extenders is described and contrasted with other physician-extender training models, and results of a survey of 277 MEDEX graduates and 207 trainees are presented. Practically all MEDEX graduates and trainees are employed in full-time practice and are working with fee-for-service family physicians in the rural areas of the United States, which suggests that the strategy used to place Medex practitioners into communities requiring additional health services has been successful.
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005249:Fees and Charges; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012423:Rural Health; D014481:United States