Top 20 medical institutions ranked by percentage of primary care graduates

Published on: June 25, 2013

This list highlights the 20 medical institutions that are the top producers of primary care graduates by percentage of total graduates, citing data from a recent study in Academic Medicine.

U.S. medical institutions need to do a much better job of churning out primary care physicians for many reasons - not the least of which is that the American public funds graduate medical education (GME) with about $13 billion in taxpayer money each year.

But some medical institutions are doing the job.

The list below highlights the 20 institutions that are the top producers of primary care graduates by percentage of total graduates, with the data supplied by a recent study in Academic Medicine that discusses the need to hold GME-sponsoring institutions accountable for developing America's future primary care physicians. (Of course, it should be noted that just because a student graduates in primary care doesn't mean he or she will end up practicing in primary care.)

The data encapsulates the years from 2006 to 2008, and applies to institutions with more than 200 graduates during those years.

1. University of Nevada School of Medicine	Reno, NV	239	54%
2. Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center	Bronx, NY	286	50%
3. Kaiser Permanente Southern California	Los Angeles, CA	286	49%
4. Brooklyn Hospital Center	Brooklyn, NY	227	48%
5. James H. Quillen College of Medicine	Johnson City, TN	240	47.1%
6. University of Kansas School of Medicine (Wichita)	Witchita, KS	233	46.4%
7. Atlantic Health	Florham Park, NJ	244	45.1%
8. UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program	Fresno, CA	206	41.8%
9. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital	Park Ridge, IL	205	41.5%
10. Kaiser Permanente Medical Group	Oakland, CA	227	41.4%
11. University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria	Peoria, IL	201	38.8%
12. New York Methodist Hospital	Brooklyn, NY	256	38.3%
13. Southern Illinois University School of Medicine	Springfield, IL	268	36.6%
14. Long Island College Hospital	Brooklyn, NY	203	35.5%
15. Wright State University School of Medicine	Dayton, OH	340	35.3%
16. Eastern Virginia Medical School	Norfolk, VA	313	34.8%
17. Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners	Grand Rapids, MI	278	33.5%
18. Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center	Brooklyn, NY	257	33.1%
19. Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center	Phoenix, AZ	239	33.1%
20. Pitt County Memorial Hospital	Greenville, NC	321	33%

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