This project will survey physicians trained in "1-2" Rural Training Track (RTT) family medicine residencies to understand the characteristics, experiences, and attitudes that influenced their rural or urban practice choices. Understanding the factors that determine practice choices of RTT graduates can help improve recruitment of residents who will ultimately fulfill RTTs' mission of preparing family physicians for rural practice.

Publications

• Graduates of Rural-centric Family Medicine Residencies: Determinants of Rural and Urban Practice
  Policy Brief
  WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
  Date: 07/2016
  This study of graduates of family medicine residencies seeking to produce rural physicians identified influences on rural practice choice, including significant others, residency, and practice communities. Findings point to the need to sustain the preferences of physicians interested in rural practice and encourage this interest in others.