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Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
World of Rural Medical Education Web site
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Most active and updated area: Physician Workforce Studies
The World of Rural Medical Education
More and better physicians that stay longer in rural practice...
Community Medical Outreach Model an RRH Article well worth reading!
Our nation, by its policies in child development, education, admissions, higher education, college, funding, medical education, insurance, and health - is a market forces machine for concentrating physicians in Major Medical Center Areas. Any medical school can graduate major medical center physicians. Few have success with physician distribution. Every school that does so has greater admissions of lower scoring, older, lower income, and different types of students. They also have greater choice of family medicine, primary care, rural careers, and underserved locations.
Family Medicine Central: National Comparisons of Workforce
Physician Workforce Studies Physicians in Poverty Series
Distributional Analysis Policy Center
Education - the pipeline begins at the earliest ages for physicians and for better health care
Rural Medical Education index page
Ranking Medical Schools and FP Residency Programs - includes links to Medical School Expansion Table and Distribution Ranking Tables
Best Works on Site Birth Origins Articles Rural List Serve
Older Premeds Presentations and Links
Most frequent keyword - Getting into Medical School Advice About Getting Into Medical School, Also Teaching Quotes Holiday Quotes
Top Rated Google sites other than this page at Physician Workforce Studies, Rural Family Physicians, also family physician workforce studies, rural physician workforce, rural medical education, underserved physician workforce, and rural medical
Author's Favorites
The Invisible Faculty by Joseph Hobbs, M.D. - by permission from STFM
Academic Medicine's Season of Accountability and Social Responsibility, Butler - by permission from AAMC
Comments Regarding the Future of Academic Medicine - from Milbank report
The Five Generations of American Medical Revolutions - from Garrison J FP 1995
Flaws in the Concept of Controllable Lifestyle - critique, also data and more data
Pendulum or Vortex - will we return, or have we taken out important foundations for health
Rural Interested Senior Medical Students 1995 from AAMC GQ data
On the Passing of Dan Marien, who continues to inspire me and much on this web site. Other Heroes in Medicine
To those who endure and overcome to gain admission, distribution, and service!