International medical graduates and the primary care workforce for rural underserved areas

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Fink, KS
Phillips, RL
Fryer, GE
Koehn, N
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[1] Univ N Carolina, Dept Family Med, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA
[2] Amer Acad Family Phys, Robert Graham Ctr, Washington, DC USA
[3] Tacoma Family Med, Tacoma, WA USA
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10.1377/hlthaff.22.2.255
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R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
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The proportion of international medical graduates (IMGs) serving as primary care physicians in rural underserved areas (RUAs) has important policy implications. We analyzed the 2000 American Medical Association Masterfile and Area Resource File to calculate the percentage of primary care IMGs, relative to U.S. medical graduates (USMGs), working in RUAs. We found that 2.1 percent of both primary care USMGs and IMGs were in RUAs, where USMGs were more likely to be family physicians but less likely to be internists or pediatricians. IMGs appear to have been no more likely than USMGs were to practice primary care in RUAs, but the distribution by specialty differs.
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