Exhibit 046 · Peer-reviewed article
Medical education reforms and the origins of the rural physician shortage
These findings suggest that the medical education reforms of the early twentieth century contributed to the urban–rural disparity in access to physician care.
Finds that graduates of more rigorous medical schools were less likely to practice in rural areas, and that the chance a new graduate located in a rural area fell 40 percent between 1900 and 1920, contributing to the early urban-rural gap in access to physicians. The paper concerns where graduates set up practice.
- Source
- Moehling, Niemesh, Thomasson and Treber, Cliometrica 14(2):181–225
- Date
- 2020
- Quoted from
- Cliometrica 14, 181-225 (2020), abstract (Springer preview; full text paywalled)
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-019-00187-w
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
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