JAMA Letter Rosenblatt
regarding rural graduate training
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33 (7.6%) of the responding programs were in rural areas, and most of these were
in large rural towns. Most of these programs are
in community hospitals that sponsor no other residency programs.
Twenty-eight of these 33 rural programs (84.8%) considered training
future rural physicians to be a high priority, and virtually all of the
training sponsored by these programs was located in rural areas.
Most of this rural training is attributable to the programs located in
large rural towns (ie, those with populations of 10 000-49 999
inhabitants) (Table 1).
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