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>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Create a quantitative Sankey diagram of the flow of US physicians from medical school graduation through postgraduate training into PC specialties: family medicine (FM), general internal medicine (IM), and general pediatrics (Peds). Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.