Primary Care
Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce
This fact sheet shows that primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants are more likely to practice in rural areas than are non-primary care specialists, but are still more concentrated in urban areas.
The Number of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Practicing Primary Care in the United States
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are health professions begun in the United States in the 1960s in response to shortages and uneven distribution of physicians.
The Number of Practicing Primary Care Physicians in the United States
Among physicians in the United States who spend the majority of their time in direct patient care, slightly less than one-third are specialists in primary care.
IMPaCT (Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation)
AHRQ has awarded four cooperative grants to support model State-level initiatives using primary care extension agents in small and mid-sized independent primary care practices to assist with primary care redesign.
