| Family Medicine Spokane Rural Training Track: 24 years of rural-based graduate medical education. | |
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PMID: 21061205 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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Twenty percent of the US population lives in rural communities, but only about 9% of the nation's physicians practice in those communities. There is little doubt that the more highly specialized physicians are, the less likely they are to practice or settle in rural areas. There is clearly a population threshold below which it is not feasible for specialist (in contrast to generalist) physicians to pursue the specialty in which they have trained. Much of rural America falls below that threshold. This leaves large geographic areas of America to the primary care physician. The proportional supply of family physicians to specialists increases as urbanization decreases. Family physicians are the largest single source of physicians in rural areas. Family medicine residency programs based in rural locations provide a critical mechanism for addressing rural primary care needs. Graduates from rural residency programs are three times more likely to practice in rural areas than urban residency program graduates. There are two primary goals of training residents in rural areas: producing more physicians who will practice in rural areas and producing physicians who are better prepared for the personal and professional demands of rural practice. Rural Training Tracks, where the first year of residency is completed in an urban setting and the second and third years at a rural site (1-2 model), initially proposed by Family Medicine Spokane in 1985, have been highly successful in placing and maintaining more than 70% of their graduates in rural communities. Similar and modifications of the "Spokane RTT model" have been established around the country. Now, more than 24 years of educational experience has been accumulated and can be applied to further development of these successful family medicine residency programs. |
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Robert K Maudlin; Gary R Newkirk |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Family medicine Volume: 42 ISSN: 1938-3800 ISO Abbreviation: Fam Med Publication Date: 2010 Nov-Dec |
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Created Date: 2010-11-09 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8306464 Medline TA: Fam Med Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 723-8 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, USA. maudlir@fammedspokane.org |
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