Why doctors choose small towns: A developmental model of rural physician recruitment and retention

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1368-1376

  Hancock, Christine ^a   Steinbach, Alan ^a   Nesbitt, Thomas S ^b   Adler, Shelley R ^c   Auerswald, Colette L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Physician recruitment; Physician retention; Place based education; Resilience; Rural health; Rural health policy; Sense of place; USA

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; LOCATION DECISION; RECRUITMENT (EMPLOYMENT); RURAL AREA; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; SENSE OF PLACE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RECREATION; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RURAL AREA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NEVADA; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PHYSICIANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

CALIFORNIA; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71849092330     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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