Educational Strategies to Reduce Physician Shortages in Underserved Areas: A Systematic Review.

The shortage of physicians in rural and underserved areas is an obstacle to the implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). We carried out a systematic review to analyze the effectiveness of initiatives in medical education aimed to increase the supply of physicians in rural or underserved areas. We searched for studies published between 1999 and 2019 in six databases, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.

[Physicians' job satisfaction with the More Doctors Program in the State of Paraíba, Brazil: assessment with structural equation modeling].

This study aimed to build a job quality assessment model for the More Doctors Program (PMM, in Portuguese) based on participating physicians' job satisfaction, using structural equation modeling. The assessment drew on a database with answers to a questionnaire developed by a group of the program's supervisors in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, and applied to physicians between December 2015 and September 2016. Exploratory factor analysis was performed to extract significant attributes and form final dimensions, and later confirmatory factor analysis was used to assess the relationship between variables.