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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2001;285:3078-3079.

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Dallas—Recruiting women physicians to rural medical practices continues to be a tough sell. But researchers are uncovering factors that may improve a community's sales pitch.

Speaking at the National Rural Health Association's annual conference in Dallas, Kathleen E. Ellsbury, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, said she and her colleagues have identified recruitment practices that successfully place women primary care physicians in rural areas.

Whether bucolic beauty trumps rural isolation when women physicians choose where to practice may depend as much on effective recruiting techniques as on individual preference of location. (Photo credit: PhotoDisc, Inc.)

In her presentation, "Gender-Related Factors in the Recruitment of Generalist Physicians to the Rural Northwest," Ellsbury reported that when choosing a rural practice, women's priorities are different from those of their male colleagues.

"We wanted to look at differences in . . . [Full Text of this Article]