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

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Shortages of primary care (PC) physicians threaten access, quality, and equity in US healthcare. Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015. Results: Physician graduates totaled 353,590, (2001–2015), including MDs - 92.1%, (325,578), DOs - 8% (28,012), IMGs - 21% (67,231).