Areas with the highest percentage of physicians who were trained in rural or medically underserved areas are also the most likely to offer community-based training, according to the Milbank Memorial Fund's Health of US Primary Care Baseline Scorecard Data Dashboard.
The national average was 65.5 percent, based on the most recent data from 2020.
Here are the 10 states with the lowest percentage of rurally or medically underserved trained physicians:
|
State |
Percentage of physicians trained in rural or medically underserved areas |
|
Virginia |
49.5 percent |
|
Hawaii |
47.4 percent |
|
Maine |
46.7 percent |
|
North Carolina |
45.8 percent |
|
North Dakota |
43.8 percent |
|
Nevada |
35.9 percent |
|
Montana |
35.4 percent |
|
Idaho |
34.5 percent |
|
South Dakota |
23.6 percent |
|
Utah |
5.9 percent |