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

The New England Journal of Medicine
H K Rabinowitz

Abstract

To help address the geographic and specialty maldistribution of physicians, Jefferson Medical College initiated the Physician Shortage Area Program (PSAP) in 1974. This unique program, which combines a selective medical school admissions policy with a special educational program, has been shown to be successful in increasing the number of family physicians in rural and underserved areas, but it is not known whether they remain in this type of practice. Graduates of the PSAP were tracked longitudinally and compared with their non-PSAP classmates. Information was obtained about the retention of family physicians in rural areas and areas with a physician shortage over the previous five years, the geographic and specialty choices of more recent graduates, and the recruitment of applicants into the program. Of the 47 PSAP graduates from the classes of 1978 through 1981, reported on earlier, the number who combined a career in family medicine with practice in a rural area or one with a physician shortage remained unchanged, although there was substantial attrition among non-PSAP graduates practicing family medicine in rural (32 percent) and underserved (40 percent) areas. Among the 101 PSAP graduates of the classes of 1982 through 19...Continue Reading

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