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Priming the Physician Pipeline: A Regional AHEC’s Use of in-state Medical School Data to Guide Its Health Careers Programming
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 27, Number 4, November 2016 Supplement
- pp. 8-18
- 10.1353/hpu.2016.0194
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Summary:
Amid evidence of its rural, Appalachian students’ low application and matriculation rates to in-state medical schools, the Northeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center developed two physician pipeline programs. This report describes the programs’ early successes and provides a basis for heightened regional responsibility in the recruitment of medical school applicants.