Is the National Health Service Corps the Answer? (for Placing Family Doctors in Underserved Areas)

Paying for college and medical school is expensive in the United States, often leaving recent graduates with large educational loan debt.1 This can influence the specialty medical students choose and where they practice. Analyzing a survey of board-certified family physicians who were 3 years out of residency, Nagaraj et al2 report in this issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine that about 30% of this group were participating in some type of loan repayment program that offered debt forgiveness.

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