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Majority Of Family Physicians Still Choose To Practice In The State Where They Were Trained

2026

AUTHOR(S)
Topmiller, Michael
Peterson, Lars E
Bazemore, Andrew W
Carrozza, Mark A
Grandmont, Jené
Jabbarpour, Yalda
TOPIC(S)
Education & Training
Family Medicine Certification
KEYWORD(S)
Graduate Medical Education
Visiting Scholar/Fellow
VOLUME
45(3):246-250

Given the recent expansion of US family medicine residency programs, we updated data on the link between training location and practice location and explored its relationship with primary care capacity. We found that most family physicians practice near their residency training programs, and many high-retention states have low primary care physician capacity.

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