Error note: In the original calculations, a data figure was transposed. Oral Roberts University graduated 12.6% into rural practice, not the 52 % rural graduation rate that I initially noted. The 52% was actually their primary care percentage in 1981 - 1985 data from WAMI research center, one of the highest in the nation. This was fairly dramatic in a newer school since other newly created allopathic medical schools had a lower starting primary care percentage that improved with time. ORU started big.

Having my wife help verify some large databases can be helpful to your career (but hazardous to your marriage). My apologies to those who may have used this in error. The service orientation issues still stand, but without this one example. Not being an outlier anymore, the regression model stands at adjusted R square of .76. With rurality and fp match explaining the reasons that medical schools graduate rural physicians nationwide.