Community Size and Organization of Practice Predict Family Physician Recertification Success
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Community size and organization of practice predict family physician recertification success.
OBJECTIVE Health disparities exist between rural and urban areas. Rural physicians may lack sufficient medical knowledge, which may lead to poor quality of care. Therefore, we sought to determine whether medical knowledge differed between family physicians (FPs) practicing in rural areas compared with those practicing in metropolitan areas. METHODS We studied 8361 FPs who took the American Bo...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1557-2625,1558-7118
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2014.03.130016