Summary Findings from Review Articles of Rural Medical Education*
| Focus | Factors Discussed | References | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geyman21 | Curran22 | Hsueh23 | Ranmuthugala24 | Rabinowitz4 | Henry25 | ||
| Program wide | Mission | x | x | X | |||
| Decentralization | x | x | x | ||||
| Rural location | x | ||||||
| Telehealth | x | x | |||||
| Premedical | K through college | X | X | ||||
| Exam preparation | X | ||||||
| Rural background | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| FM/PC interest | x | X | X | X | |||
| Predoctoral | FM/PC preceptors | x | X | X | |||
| FM faculty | X | X | |||||
| Faculty support | x | ||||||
| Rural experience | x | x | X | x | X | X | |
| Rural focus | x | X | X | ||||
| FM focus | x | ||||||
| PBL | x | ||||||
| Obstacles | Funding | x | x | ||||
| Accreditation | x | ||||||
| Urban influence | x | ||||||
| Specialist influence | x | ||||||
| Evaluation issues | Selection bias | x | |||||
| Confounders | X | x | |||||
| Recommendations | Multiple interventions | X | X | X | x | x | |
* Limited to preresidency topics.
FM, family medicine; K, kindergarten; PBL, problem-based learning; PC, primary care; x, factor discussed; X, factor emphasized.