Cordes S M
West J Med. 1978 Jan;128(1):75-80.
Data on (1) personal background, (2) place of medical education and training, (3) reasons for selecting the present place of practice and (4) previous practice location were gathered and analyzed from 41 general practitioners in rural Washington state. The analysis was done to isolate factors influencing the choice of location by physicians. Results show that most of the physicians had spent at least some of their preadulthood years in small communities and that most had some exposure to the state of Washington before establishing their practices in the state. In addition to the apparent importance of previous exposure to small communities and Washington state, the physicians were also influenced in their locational choice by (1) the professional advantages or appeal of the community, (2) recruitment efforts by persons within the community and (3) economic reasons. The physicians were rather immobile. Most had never practiced in another community and only two of the 41 physicians planned to move to another community.
我们从华盛顿州农村地区的41名全科医生那里收集并分析了以下数据：(1)个人背景；(2)医学教育和培训地点；(3)选择当前执业地点的原因；(4)以前的执业地点。进行该分析是为了找出影响医生选择执业地点的因素。结果显示，大多数医生在成年前至少有一段时间生活在小社区，并且大多数人在该州执业之前就对华盛顿州有所了解。除了之前接触过小社区和华盛顿州这一明显重要的因素外，医生在选择执业地点时还受到以下因素的影响：(1)社区的专业优势或吸引力；(2)社区内人员的招聘努力；(3)经济原因。这些医生流动性较小。大多数医生从未在其他社区执业，41名医生中只有两名计划搬到另一个社区。
