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Retention of Primary Care Physicians in Rural Health Professional Shortage Areas

Donald E. Pathman, MD, MPH, Thomas R. Konrad, PhD, Rebekkah Dann, MS and Gary Koch, PhD

Donald E. Pathman and Thomas R. Konrad are with the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Donald E. Pathman is also with the Department of Family Medicine at University of North Carolina. Rebekkah Dann and Gary Koch are with the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Retention "survival" curves for primary care physicians in rural HPSA (n = 300) and non-HPSA (n = 195) settings.

 


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  		FIGURE 2—— Retention of physicians grouped by quartiles of county primary care physician–to-population ratios (n = 485).

 




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