"The 14 RTTs in this study each graduated an average of two physicians per year. This rate of output is comparable to that of all 24 RTTs nationwide, which collectively matriculate about 45 to 50 new physicians annually."
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Primary Care Policy Briefs
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
January 2012
National Institute for Health Care Reform
December 2011
"While there is little debate about a growing primary care workforce shortage in the United States, precise estimates of current and projected need vary. A secondary problem contributing to addressing capacity shortfalls is that the distribution of primary care practitioners often is mismatched with patient needs."
Tags: Workforce Shortage
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
November 2011
"To further inform policy discussions around the U.S. primary care workforce, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is producing a set of fact sheets to provide health care policy and decision makers with information on the U.S. primary care workforce."
Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative
August 9, 2011
"North Carolina is known for innovative practices in primary care delivery and education, and accordingly one might expect to see greater efficiencies overall in care delivery, and less direct, measurable impact by community health centers on cost and outcome. Of interest is whether community health centers (CHCs) are cost-effective providers in states with a sophisticated primary care infrastructure and focus on the needs of medically underserved communities."
Tags: Health Centers
Center for American Progress
August 3, 2011
"Community health centers are a crucial source of health care for a diverse group of patients, providing preventive services, treatment, and care management for medically underserved communities. That’s why these centers have enjoyed solid bipartisan support over the past several decades."
Tags: Health Centers
Community Catalyst
Jume 2011
"As the country searches for ways to reduce rising health care costs, policymakers must consider ways to increase the supply of primary care physicians caring for the adult population. Strong evidence links higher concentrations of primary care doctors to better quality care at lower cost. Currently in the U.S., one third of all physicians are primary care doctors; in other industrialized nations, at least half of physicians are primary care providers. Part of the explanation is the way the U.S. pays for graduate medical education (GME)."
UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care
August 2009
"Abundant research comparing nations, states and regions within the US, and specific systems of care has shown that health systems built on a solid foundation of primary care deliver more effective, efficient, and equitable care than systems that fail to invest adequately in primary care. However, some policy analysts have questioned whether these largely cross-sectional, observational studies are adequate for making inferences about whether implementing major policy interventions to strengthen primary care as part of health reform would in the relatively short term 'bend the cost curve' at the same time as improving quality of care and patient outcomes."
