Abstract
IN RESIDENCY training programs around the country, a wave of physicians with obligations to the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) is now cresting. These physicians held NHSC scholarships as medical students, and on completion of residency training approved by the Corps they must begin a period of service equal in years to the length of time that they were supported by the NHSC as medical students. The recipients of the last large batch of NHSC scholarships were freshmen in medical school four years ago and are now in their first year of residency training. The wave of NHSC scholarship students has already passed through the medical schools, and by 1987 it will have passed through most residencies as well. Thereafter, communities that would have trouble attracting physicians without the special inducement of the NHSC service obligation may find themselves medically abandoned. This article proposes a strategy for averting that predictable
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