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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. Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort design.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

A research study in Health Affairs charts "physicians' trajectories from medical school graduation through postgraduate training into primary care specialties" for MD, DO, and international medical graduates from 2001-15. It's well documented that schools that are ranked highly by U.S.