Tracking the Workforce Outcomes of NC Medical Schools Five Years After Graduation: Class of 2012
By Julie Spero
Nov 26, 2018
- Of the 436 NC medical school graduates from the class of 2012, 1% (n=4) were in practice in primary care in rural NC five years after graduation. This finding is similar to prior years.
- All four physicians in primary care practice in a rural county were family medicine physicians who graduated from a public medical school: two each from East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
- Primary care includes family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, and obstetrics & gynecology.
Funding & Acknowledgements
The HPDS is maintained by the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program (AHEC), and the state’s independent health professional licensing boards. Ongoing financial support is provided by the NC AHEC Program Office. Although the NC HPDS maintains the data system, the data remain the property of their respective licensing board. This information or content and conclusions are those of the authors and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by NC AHEC. To learn more about NC AHEC please visit: https://www.ncahec.net.
