title: Twenty-five years of serving the health care needs of rural North Carolina.
abstract: The Community Practitioner Program seeks to improve access to quality health care for North Carolina's most vulnerable people by providing educational loan repayment grants to primary care physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in return for their service in rural and underserved communities.
authors.affiliation: North Carolina Medical Society Foundation, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. fwalker@ncmedsoc.org.
authors.forename: Franklin
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006280:Health Workforce; D006801:Humans; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D009657:North Carolina; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000600:supply & distribution; D010560:Personnel Selection; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000600:supply & distribution; D058007:Physicians, Primary Care / Q000600:supply & distribution; D011320:Primary Health Care; D019035:Rural Health Services; D012424:Rural Population; D014146:Training Support