Recruitment, retention, and follow-up of graduates of a program to increase the number of family physicians in rural and underserved areas

Article Abstract:

Medical schools may influence the number of family physicians working in rural and/or underserved areas through their recruitment and admissions policies. Pennsylvania's Jefferson Medical College introduced the Physician Shortage Area Program (PSAP) in 1974 to recruit students from rural areas who planned to practice family medicine in rural and underserved areas. Of students graduating between 1982 and 1986, 55% of PSAP students went on to practice family medicine compared with 14% of non-PSAP students. Thirty percent of PSAP graduates practiced in underserved areas compared with 7% of non-PSAP graduates, and 38% of PSAP graduates practiced in rural areas compared with 9% of non-PSAP graduates. There was no overall attrition among PSAP graduates practicing family medicine in rural or underserved areas between 1986 and 1991, but among non-PSAP graduates practicing family medicine during that period, 32% left rural areas and 40% left underserved areas.

Supply and demand, Practice, Recruiting, Family medicine, Study and teaching, Physicians (General practice), General practitioners, Medicine, Rural, Rural medicine, Jefferson Medical College

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Affirmative action, Cuban style

Article Abstract:

Teresa Glover is enrolled at the Latin America School of Medicine in Havana sponsored by the Cuban government and dedicated to training doctors to treat the poor of the Western hemisphere and Africa. Cuba has invested in health care and now has as many physicians per capita as the United States and health indicators on a par with those in the most developed nations.

United States, Cuba, Medical students, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Medical colleges, Medical schools, Educational aspects

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