Tag: physician recruitment
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More foreign-born doctors practice in rural areas, come from poor nations; Kentucky is about average, West Virginia is high
More than 15 percent of physicians in the U.S. received training in lower-income countries, including India, Pakistan and the Phillippines, a new study has found, reports Lori Kersey of The Charleston Gazette....
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Rural hospitals to get federal help for recruiting physicians
Critical-access hospitals will get help recruiting physicians to their rural areas through an expanded loan repayment program that is part of President Obama’s new jobs initiative for rural America. The...