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The April issue of Academic Medicine features a study led by Dr. Howard Rabinowitz that evaluates the historical contribution of three Rural Medical School Programs to the rural primary care workforce. It compares the efficiency of these programs to that of international medical graduates (IMG) in supporting the rural primary care workforce. It finds that graduates of these programs are 4 times more likely to practice in a rural primary care practice. The study concludes that "wider adoption of the RP model would substantially increase access to care in rural areas compared with increasing reliance on IMGs or unfocused expansion of traditional medical schools." This study was done in collaboration with researchers at the Robert Graham Center.

I LIVE PC Conference Papers

The Graham Center hosted the International Learning on Increasing the Value and Effectiveness of Primary Care (I LIVE PC) conference with the generous support of AHRQ and the Commonwealth Fund. This conference brought together leaders from the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand, and the UK to understand what we could learn from each other, particularly about primary care. The conference papers have been published in a supplemental issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

Access Reports

Learn about the challenges facing America's safety net in a series of reports by the Graham Center and the National Association of Community Health Centers:

Access Denied: A look at America's medically disenfranchised

Access Granted: The primary care payoff

Access Transformed: Building a primary care workforce for the 21st century

What influences student & resident choices?

There is increasing interest in assuring sustaining healing relationships through primary care. Yet, the United States does not actively influence the number, type, or geographic distribution of its physician workforce. Equitable access to health care is at risk without well-informed, evidence-based policies and incentives.

Specialty and geographic distribution of the physician workforce: What influences medical student and resident choices?

HealthLandscape: Version 3 Beta

An overdue update to HealthLandscape, our successful online Geographic Information System for health and community data, is underway. Among its many new features are immediate access to interactive mapping with fewer clicks, a modular structure for more efficient navigation, rapid visualization of population data that influences health (Quick Maps), and the ability to quickly drag and drop your datasets into our mapper (Quick Geocodes) for instant viewing. Preview beta.healthlandscape.org

Health Professional Shortage Area Mapper

Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) are counties or portions of counties in the United States that have the lowest ratio of physicians to population. Learn more about primary care HPSAs in your area, and determine whether your practice might be eligible for bonus payments or other policy incentives based on location in a HPSA using our new tool:

Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) Mapper

THE ROBERT GRAHAM CENTER exists to...

Improve individual and population health by enhancing the delivery of primary care.

The Center aims to achieve this vision through the generation or synthesis of evidence that brings a family medicine and primary care perspective to health policy deliberations from the local to international levels.

themes

Guiding the work of the Robert Graham Center

The Value of Primary Care

Health Access and Equity

Delivery and Scope of the Medical Home

Healthcare Quality and Safety