Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
Physician Workforce Studies - basics on birth origins, distribution, health policy
Reimbursement and Physician Distribution - periods when the nation has graduated more primary care, family medicine, rural, and poverty location physicians have been periods of increasing reimbursement and support for primary care
Understanding Poverty and Physician Workforce - Use of Poverty levels in determining workforce requires some understanding of how physicians distribute in relation to urban and rural poverty areas.
Practice Activity of Physicians and Rural Location - % of physicians in rural areas compared to urban noted by practice activity and specialty
Patterns of Rural Workforce - some states donate scarce resources and others "harvest"
Geriatrics Distribution - comparisons rural and urban and types and states
Decreasing Rural FP Physicians - After some banner years of distribution, back to maldistribution
Age at Graduation and Physician Specialty - older physicians distribute much better to front line specialties and rural areas
Distribution of Physicians - table of various specialties
Ranking Medical Schools and FP Residency Programs - links to ranking tables for the top distributional efforts
Ethnicity Gender and Rural Practice Choice - % of each major ethnicity choosing rural practice for recent FP grads
Comparing Physician Distribution and the MCAT - socioeconomics and test taking skills may conspire to narrow physician distribution.
Medicine, Education, and Social Status
Rural Medical Education main web site entry
Rural Workforce and Health Policy in the United States
Workforce Issues - lots of links to site areas
Medical Schools in Rural Areas
Why There Are Few Young Adults in Rural America