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March 5, 2026Health Affairs0 citations

Majority Of Family Physicians Still Choose To Practice In The State Where They Were Trained

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MTMichael TopmillerAmerican Academy of Family PhysiciansLPLars E. PetersonUniversity of KentuckyABAndrew BazemoreAmerican Academy of Family Physicians

Key Points

  • This research aims to evaluate the relationship between family medicine training locations and subsequent practice locations.
  • Updated data on practice locations of family physicians
  • Analyzed connection between training sites and practice settings
  • Investigated primary care capacity in various states
  • Most family physicians practice in the same state as their residency training
  • High-retention states often experience low primary care physician capacity

Abstract

Given the recent expansion of US family medicine residency programs, we updated data on the link between training location and practice location and explored its relationship with primary care capacity. We found that most family physicians practice near their residency training programs, and many high-retention states have low primary care physician capacity.

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Topmiller et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a91d21d6127c7a504bfea0https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.01003
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