Samantha W Pollack, C Holly A Andrilla, Lars Peterson, Zachary J Morgan, Randall Longenecker, David Schmitz, David V Evans, Davis G Patterson
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Little is known about how rural and urban family medicine residencies compare in preparing physicians for practice. This study compared the perceptions of preparation for practice and actual postgraduation scope of practice (SOP) between rural and urban residency program graduates. METHODS: We analyzed data on 6,483 early-career, board-certified physicians surveyed 2016-2018, 3 years after residency graduation, and 44,325 later-career board-certified physicians surveyed 2014-2018, every 7 to 10 years after initial certification...
March 2023: Family Medicine