Training to Stay: Oklahoma's Homegrown, Educational Approach to the Rural Physician Shortage

Choctaw Nation created a family medicine residency program in rural Oklahoma in order to address the rural physician shortage. Because residencies are typically in urban areas, physicians are more likely to practice there after completing their residencies. Highlights the history of the physician shortage and efforts by the Center for Rural Health at Oklahoma State University to establish rural residency sites.
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - Category: Rural Health Source Type: news