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Emily P. Tierney, MD; Sunil Kalia, MD; Alexa Boer Kimball, MD, MPH

Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(2):208-209.

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The shortage and geographic maldistribution of dermatologists substantially affects patient access to dermatologic care.¹ At the same time, student loan debt has been rising at a rate far surpassing that of inflation.² In light of the oft-cited proposal to use debt repayment to influence physician maldistribution,^3-4 we designed survey questions to discover whether recent dermatology residency graduates would be willing to practice in underserved areas in exchange for student loan debt repayment.

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Data were collected at a board review course attended by many recent residency graduates, as previously described.⁵

Results
In 2006 and 2007, 52.0% (n = 139 of 261) and 66.0% (n = 162 of 266) of attendees completed the survey (Table). In 2006 and 2007, location was described by 73.1% as "very important" in job selection (n = 220). In 2006, 60.6% of respondents graduated with student loan debt (n = 84) (. . . [Full Text of this Article]

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