The national shortage of primary care physicians has been a concern for years, and a new study in the Annals of Family Medicine underscores how urgent the problem is and where the biggest pain point ...

Created to help meet the growing demand for primary care providers in rural communities, the CVPH Family Medicine Residency program celebrated the graduation of seven physicians who are ...

Andrew Fry, MD, grew up in a small rural Pennsylvania community about 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg. He completed medical school and residency in the state and, after graduating last year, is now a ...

This article originally appeared on KFF Health News. ELKO, Nev. — Anger, devastation, and concern for her patients washed over Dr. Bridget Martinez as she learned that her residency training program ...

This new study shows that family medicine physicians in rural areas tend to be less comfortable in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)-related clinical activities and conversations with adolescents ...

ELKO, Nev. — Anger, devastation, and concern for her patients washed over Bridget Martinez as she learned that her residency training program in rural northeastern Nevada would be shuttered. The ...

Since 1971, the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho) program at the University of Washington School of Medicine has been working to bolster the rural physician workforce, both by ...

A report shows a steep drop in rural family physicians in recent years, raising concerns about the sustainability of primary care in underserved communities. Rural healthcare is under duress, and a ...

ECU Health’s effort to attract more doctors to rural communities has been successful with two of four practitioners in its inaugural Rural Family Medicine Residency Program class agreeing to stay in ...

ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University graduated the first-ever cohort of resident physicians in the Rural Family Medicine Residency Program on June 30, before ...

Indiana Regional Medical Center’s inaugural class of rural family medicine residents celebrated their graduation Saturday at Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Sutton Hall. The four graduates from ...

POTTSVILLE – Lehigh Valley Hospital-Schuylkill’s Rural Family Medicine Residency Program has a new name – the Walter and Irene Baran Schuylkill Family Medicine Residency Program – thanks to the ...