These fact sheets with imbedded maps illustrate the impact of family medicine residency programs on communities and regions by where their graduates have chosen to locate and practice. The initial set are for those programs that have closed since 2000. Since rural and other underserved populations primarily rely on family physicians, these maps help us understand how closing programs affect these communities or the local physician workforce.
Closing programs were identified using ACGME and AAFP membership data to determine which physicians graduated from these closing programs. Physician location data from the AMA Physician Masterfile were combined with Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and rurality data to determine where graduates of closing programs are practicing and what types of counties they are serving. These maps show us that the loss of any one of these programs may have a significant impact on a state or region. There are two types of maps: point maps showing the location of each program's graduates and county-level maps showing the footprint of a program (those counties containing 70 percent of a program's graduates).
Please e-mail the Graham Center (policy@aafp.org) with questions.