Open AccessConsiderations for Selecting Applicants to Rural Medicine Programs
Author(s) -
David Bramm
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of regional medical campuses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2576-5558
DOI - 10.24926/jrmc.v4i4.4284
Subject(s) - rural area , rural population , selection (genetic algorithm) , order (exchange) , rural health , family medicine , medical education , population , medicine , psychology , business , environmental health , computer science , finance , pathology , artificial intelligence
The selection of medical students destined for rural practice is important in order to help provide access to care for the 20% of the US population who live in rural America. Knowing which medical school applicants will go into rural practice is an inexact science, although the objective predictive characteristics of future rural doctors are well known and evident in the literature. The role of rural program directors is to identify which applicants will likely choose a FM residency, done primarily by identifying which rural predictive characteristics the applicants possess. Admissions committee members are not expected to determine the likely practice locations of rural applicants, and need only have the responsibility of determining which applicants should become physicians.