Pipelines to Pathways: Medical School Commitment to Producing a Rural Workforce

Despite the efforts of numerous medical schools to produce rural physicians, many rural communities in the United States still experience physician shortages. This study describes the current landscape of rural efforts in US undergraduate medical education and catalogs medical school characteristics and activities that evidence has suggested, and that many experts in rural medical education believe, may result in more graduates choosing rural practice.

Read the full article in The Journal of Rural Health

Lead author: Randall Longenecker, MD