Best Rural Underserved and Rural Distributions, Ranked by Rural Underserved Percentage

Robert C. Bowman, M.D.   7/15/2007

Family physicians with gender, race, or ethnicity are 1997 - 2003 residency grads. Others listed are 1987 - 1999 medical school graduates. This table includes only physicians who have left residency training, who are active, and are not listed as "not classified"

FP = family physician

MS = Medical School Grad

Urban Influence Codes are 1993 coding

Total

Rural Under-served

Rural Not MMC

Isolated Rural

Isolated Under-served

Practice Bottom Income Quartile

Rural Born

Older than 29 MS Grad

Native American Male FP

40

22.5%

40.0%

5.0%

2.5%

12.5%

40.0%

40.0%

Native American Female

28

21.4%

25.0%

14.3%

0.0%

3.6%

63.0%

50.0%

Birth Whole County Short FP

325

18.5%

33.2%

6.5%

3.4%

7.7%

88.3%

33.8%

Small Rural Born FP

991

16.6%

42.0%

6.7%

3.1%

11.9%

100.0%

30.9%

Born NonMetro Urb Inf 8 and an FP

1173

16.6%

42.7%

9.4%

4.1%

12.2%

99.4%

30.3%

Born NonMetro Urb Inf 9 and an FP

325

14.5%

46.2%

16.3%

5.8%

7.4%

99.7%

33.7%

Born NonMetro Urb Inf 4 and an FP

120

14.2%

38.3%

9.2%

3.3%

18.3%

97.5%

33.3%

Born NonMetro Urb Inf 6 and an FP

792

12.6%

38.4%

8.0%

2.5%

13.1%

96.7%

30.3%

Isolated Rural Born FP

358

12.0%

39.7%

13.1%

2.8%

13.1%

100%

35.6%

Born NonMetro Urb Inf 7 and an FP

1556

11.8%

34.2%

6.3%

2.3%

12.8%

92.7%

28.0%

Rural Located FP Res Grad

201

10.9%

27.9%

7.5%

3.5%

10.4%

24.1%

32.8%

Born NonMetro Urb Inf 5 and an FP

1058

10.4%

34.1%

4.5%

1.9%

12.1%

95.4%

27.9%

Pakistan Medical School

2857

10.1%

16.3%

2.7%

1.9%

10.2%

<5%

0.8%

Large Rural Born FP

1563

9.5%

30.6%

4.8%

1.5%

13.2%

100%

25.8%

Mexican American Male FP

356

9.0%

14.0%

1.4%

0.0%

5.6%

8.4%

30.3%

Philippines Medical School

2582

8.8%

17.8%

3.8%

1.9%

11.3%

<5%

3.4%

African American Male FP

393

8.7%

12.7%

2.0%

1.3%

4.6%

9.5%

33.8%

Born NonMetro Urb Inf 3 and an FP

336

8.6%

28.9%

5.4%

3.0%

11.9%

86.3%

26.2%

White Male FP

7172

8.3%

24.1%

4.0%

1.3%

10.7%

20.2%

31.2%

Other/Unknown Male FP

1295

8.3%

21.5%

4.5%

1.8%

8.8%

14.1%

35.2%

Instate Born FP

7152

7.4%

22.1%

3.5%

1.0%

9.0%

23.9%

22.6%

Isolated Rural Birth

2595

7.3%

22.0%

5.2%

1.8%

11.7%

100%

28.1%

Puerto Rican Male FP

56

7.1%

17.9%

0.0%

0.0%

1.8%

<5%

26.8%

Small Rural Birth

7412

7.1%

20.1%

3.0%

1.3%

13.5%

100%

26.5%

Born Metro Urb Inf 2 and FP

9207

7.1%

19.8%

3.8%

1.5%

15.0%

6.9%

27.7%

Office Internal Med IMG

5769

6.8%

12.4%

2.2%

1.5%

8.8%

0.0%

5.6%

All Inclusive PriCare IMG

18428

6.6%

12.9%

2.5%

1.3%

8.4%

0.8%

12.0%

African American Female FP

709

6.5%

9.4%

1.7%

0.8%

2.7%

10.6%

23.7%

Office Pediatric IMG

2656

6.2%

11.0%

1.6%

0.8%

10.0%

0.3%

6.8%

Foreign Born IMG FP

1832

6.2%

15.3%

3.2%

1.5%

10.5%

<5%

17.1%

White Female FP

5296

6.1%

19.4%

3.6%

1.0%

9.5%

18.7%

27.9%

Urban Born FP

11428

5.9%

16.7%

3.0%

0.9%

8.0%

0.0%

28.4%

Military Born FP

170

5.9%

18.2%

1.8%

1.2%

6.5%

10.0%

28.2%

Born NonMetro Urb Inf 9 Not an FP

668

5.8%

15.6%

2.4%

0.9%

9.7%

99.3%

27.5%

Unknown Birth IMG

9297

5.5%

11.0%

1.8%

1.0%

7.6%

<5%

9.3%

Birth MS City/County FP

8273

5.5%

15.7%

2.8%

0.7%

8.0%

1.5%

28.9%

Allo MCAT 8.5-9.25 MS

18877

5.5%

13.6%

1.7%

0.6%

18.0%

23.7%

24.2%

Osteopathic Lower MCAT

8396

5.4%

13.4%

2.2%

0.8%

8.9%

9.1%

40.2%

Other/Unknown Female FP

1124

5.3%

14.3%

2.3%

0.5%

7.0%

11.8%

24.4%

Born Metro Urb Inf 1 and FP

14571

5.3%

14.9%

3.2%

1.2%

9.3%

1.8%

29.2%

Large Rural Birth

13630

5.2%

15.2%

1.8%

0.7%

12.4%

100%

22.6%

Internal Medicine IMG

22144

5.2%

10.0%

1.6%

0.9%

8.5%

<5%

6.3%

Foreign Born IMG

21943

5.2%

10.0%

1.5%

0.9%

8.6%

<5%

6.1%

Foreign Born in PR

274

5.1%

12.4%

11.3%

0.0%

2.2%

<5%

21.5%

All International Med Grads

35278

5.1%

10.1%

1.7%

0.9%

8.2%

<5%

10.1%

Nigeria Medical School

757

5.0%

9.5%

1.2%

0.8%

12.7%

<5%

2.0%

India Medical School

7724

4.9%

9.2%

1.3%

0.9%

8.0%

<5%

1.0%

Other Hispanic Female FP

103

4.9%

8.7%

1.0%

1.0%

2.9%

6.5%

30.1%

Puerto Rican Female FP

62

4.8%

11.3%

3.2%

1.6%

8.1%

<5%

17.7%

Born NonMetro Urb Inf 8 Not an FP

2720

4.8%

14.5%

1.8%

1.0%

13.7%

99.2%

24.8%

Born NonMetro Urb Inf 4 Not an FP

366

4.6%

14.2%

1.9%

0.8%

11.7%

96.4%

27.3%

All Foreign Born FP

2893

4.5%

11.7%

1.7%

0.6%

7.7%

<5%

21.5%

Inner City FP Res Grad

2703

4.4%

10.1%

2.0%

0.7%

6.2%

6.4%

26.4%

Central America MS

2796

4.4%

8.8%

2.6%

0.4%

11.8%

<5%

23.0%

Distant International

12086

4.2%

8.1%

1.3%

0.7%

6.7%

<5%

7.7%

All Inclusive PC US

82474

4.2%