TY - JOUR T1 - The Essential Role of Family Physicians in Providing Cesarean Sections in Rural Communities JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 10 LP - 11 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2021.01.200132 VL - 34 IS - 1 AU - Sebastian T. Tong AU - Aimee R. Eden AU - Zachary J. Morgan AU - Andrew W. Bazemore AU - Lars E. Peterson Y1 - 2021/01/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/1/10.abstract N2 - Of family physicians who perform cesarean sections, more than half do so in rural communities and 38.6% provide cesarean sections in counties without any obstetrician/gynecologists. As policymakers in the United States struggle with a widening landscape of ‘obstetrical deserts,’ efforts to adequately train a family physician workforce prepared to provide cesarean sections could help maintain access to local obstetric services in rural communities and reduce perinatal morbidity and mortality. ER -