Boulger J G
Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota-Duluth 55812.
J Rural Health. 1991 Spring;7(2):105-15. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1991.tb00713.x.
The importance of family medicine in providing rural health services has been established for quite some time. The need to train physicians who select the specialty of family medicine is critical at a time when medical student interest in the primary care specialties appears to be diminishing. Renewed efforts by educational institutions and incentives at the state and federal levels will be necessary to assist in the alleviation of shortages of rural physicians. The educational program at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, School of Medicine has achieved a great deal of success in training rural family physicians. A coordinated program effort, featuring the efforts of more than 200 family physicians during the past 15 years, has led to 52.5 percent of all graduates selecting family practice and more than 41 percent choosing practice sites with a population fewer than 20,000. Elements of the program at Duluth could serve as a model for other schools desiring to increase the number of students entering family medicine and rural practice.
家庭医学在提供农村医疗服务方面的重要性已经确立了相当长一段时间。在医学生对初级保健专业的兴趣似乎正在下降的时期，培养选择家庭医学专业的医生至关重要。教育机构的重新努力以及州和联邦层面的激励措施对于缓解农村医生短缺将是必要的。明尼苏达大学德卢斯医学院的教育项目在培养农村家庭医生方面取得了很大成功。一个协调一致的项目努力，在过去15年中有200多名家庭医生参与其中，使得所有毕业生中有52.5%选择了家庭医疗，超过41%选择了人口少于20000的执业地点。德卢斯项目的要素可以为其他希望增加进入家庭医学和农村医疗领域学生数量的学校提供一个模式。
