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Data updates show family physicians practice near training locations, highlighting primary care capacity issues.
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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