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Robert   Bowman

Robert Bowman

United States

Bob Bowman began as a rural family physician and has facilitated health access workforce efforts in Texas, Tennessee, Nebraska, and Arizona, USA. He continues studies of health access contributions of various primary care sources using the Standard Primary Care Year measuring tool, and has also developed workforce distribution coding using concentrations of clinicians. He is working with Dignity Health and continues his efforts at the World of Rural Medical Education, Basic Health Access, and Physician Workforce Studies web sites and blogs (search Basic Health Access or Rural Medical Education).


Articles contributed to by this person


Original Research 16 June 2022

Geographic distribution of family physicians in Japan and the USA: a cross-sectional comparative study


Commentary 14 June 2014

Preventing rural workforce by design


Editorial 8 May 2013

Five Year Anniversary of The North American Section of Rural and Remote Health: "Timing is Everything!"


Editorial 5 September 2012

A guide to reporting studies in rural and remote health


Editorial 24 April 2012

Prescription drug mayhem and rural America


Letter to the Editor 21 October 2008

The geographic relationships between medical students' birth location and high school location


Editorial 17 September 2008

The illusion of minority status


Original Research 10 September 2008

Measuring primary care: the standard primary care year


Editorial 24 July 2008

They really do go


Editorial 29 May 2008

The North American section of Rural and Remote Health: the time has come!


Commentary 13 June 2007

Continuing medical education as a map to guide rural physicians


Editorial 22 February 2007

New models or remodeling students or both?


Editorial 7 March 2001

Impact of medical students on rural preceptors - it's time for better evidence

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