Increasing Graduate Medical Education (GME) in Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) could enhance physician recruitment and retention in rural America

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-8

  Xierali, Imam M ^a   Sweeney, Sarah A ^b   Phillips, Robert L ^a   Bazemore, Andrew W ^a   Petterson, Stephen M ^a  

^a ROBERT GRAHAM CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 84855681002     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2012.01.110188     Document Type: Article

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3. Phillips RL, Dodoo MS, Petterson S, et al. Specialty and geographic distribution of the physician workforce: what influences medical student & resident choices? March 2, 2009. Washington, DC: The Robert Graham Center. Available at http://www.graham-center.org/online/etc/medialib/graham/ documents/publications/mongraphs-books/2009/ rgcmo-specialty-geographic.Par. 0001.File.tmp/ Specialty-geography-compressed.pdf. Accessed November 14, 2011.