Distribution of Young Medical Specialists from Western New York

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Abstract
Much has been written about the maldistribution of physicians in the United States, both geographically and by specialty. Many statistics are cited as evidence, such as physician to population ratios. Then these statistics are correlated with other variables to discover which arc the most significant. However, these comparisons usually deal with community attributes that cannot be manipulated in order to improve the physician to population ratio. In this study, the emphasis is placed on the physicians own background in determining his present place of practice. Namely, this study concerns the mobility of specialists in on attempt to shed some light on the problem of the maldistribution of physicians. The results of this study arc in harmony with the previous studies. Furthermore, it is shown that the majority of specialists in this study practice in the area in which they have been reared, schooled, or trained. The implications indicate that if health manpower councils wish to increase the number of specialists in a geographical area, they should be accepting more medical school applicants from that region and attracting more interns and medical residents to that area.

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