PURPOSE Despite considerable investment in increasing the number of primary care
physicians in rural shortage areas, little is known about their movement rates and factors …

Context: Physician supply is anticipated to fall short of national requirements over the next
20 years. Rural areas are likely to lose relatively more physicians. Policy makers must know …

Purpose The overall distribution of physicians in the United States is uneven, with
concentrations in urban areas while some rural places have proportionately very few. This …

Introduction: The geographic distribution of physicians in the United States of America has
been often described as unbalanced or maldistributed. There is much in the literature on the …

Context: Recruiting and retaining physicians is a challenge in rural areas. Growing up in a
rural area and completing medical training in a rural area have been shown to predict …

Objectives. We tested the assumption that average job retention duration is shorter for
physicians in rural health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) than for physicians in rural …

Context: Access to care in rural areas is a major problem. Despite more than 20% of the US
population residing in these areas, only 9% of physicians practice there. Extensive research …

An important aspect of primary care physician availability is the retention of physicians once
they have located. While retention has been under‐researched compared to recruitment, it is …

Objective To examine differences in referral patterns in a nationally representative sample
between primary care physicians (PCP) practicing in rural vs nonrural areas and changes …

States suffer disproportionately from inadequate access to health care. In 2018, according to
the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), 66% of Health Professional …