Publications [#238862] of Frank A. Sloan

Journal Articles

1. Yett, DE; Sloan, FA, Migration patterns of recent medical school graduates., Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing, vol. 11 no. 2 (June, 1974), pp. 125-142 (Earlier version presented at the Health Services Research Conference on Factors in Health Manpower Performance and the Delivery of Health Care, Chicago, December 9, 1971.)
   (last updated on 2025/05/11)

   Abstract:
   This study relates to the aspect of the problem of inadequate medical care which is apparent in the noticeably short supply of physicians in low income districts and rural areas. The model seeks to explain the locational choices of recent medical school graduates, rather than the spatial distribution of all physicians. In order to take advantage of certain unpublished data, the authors chose to study physicians making their first practice location decision in 1966. Variables expected from previous research and from a priori rg to influence practice location decisions are discussed. The 1966 sample is divided into groups according to the amount of previous contact a physician has had with a particular state. Probabilities that physicians with specified amounts of previous contact with a state will locate practices in that state are then calculated. Results of multiple regression analysis based on the specifications in the second section are presented. Information on the patterns of migration of physicians who do not settle in the state of previous attachment is also presented and partially analyzed. The final section describes future research directions and discusses some of the policy implications of the results to date.