Quote:People who come from the city and go to school in the city aren't exactly stampeding into the sticks to bring medicine. I don;t know why we couldn't incentiviz that though, we incentivize all sorts of other silly shit...our federal, state, and local governments are tripping over themselves to bring predatory manufacturing into rural areas.
Here is part of the answer to your problem...
Quote:. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (732 nominations)
2. Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (696)
3. Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston (600)
4. University of California in San Francisco (579)
5. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. (297)
6. Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C. (283)
7. Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. (249)
8. University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (248)
9. New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) in New York (215)
10. McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Chicago (201)
This was from a US News and World Report - when I went back to copy the url the site had crashed!
As you can see, the top choices for residency programs are all in major cities. That means that people do their networking with doctors in those cities. The whole thing is a self-perpetuating system.
