The effect of accredited rural training tracks on physician placement.
Accredited family practice rural training tracks are placing graduates in rural settings at notably high rates: 76 percent overall and 88 percent among programs implemented in the past 10 years. Favorable, immediate results could be expected from their continuation and expansion, permitted by adjustments in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000639:trends; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D019035:Rural Health Services; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce