Family Physicians Who Provide Cesarean Sections as Primary Surgeon (N [%]) from the 2017 and 2018 American Board of Family Medicine’s Family Medicine Certification Examination Registration Questionnaire*
| Presence of Obstetrician/Gynecologist in County | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Total | |
| Rurality† | |||
| Urban | 98 (59.8%) | 16 (15.5%) | 114 (42.7%) |
| Micropolitan | 27 (16.5%) | 2 (1.9%) | 29 (10.9%) |
| Large Rural | 39 (23.8%) | 64 (62.1%) | 103 (38.6%) |
| Small Rural | 0 (0.0%) | 21 (20.4%) | 21 (7.9%) |
| Total | 164 | 103 | 267 |
↵* The Certification Examination registration questionnaire is completed 3–4 months before the examination as a required part of registration.
↵† Rurality was defined using Rural-Urban Continuum Codes by county of primary practice site with urban codes 1–3, micropolitan 4–5, large rural 6–7, and small rural 8–9. The US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, which created this scale, defines urban as codes 1–3 and rural as codes 4–9.