The impact of Japan's 2004 postgraduate training program on intra-prefectural distribution of pediatricians in Japan.

OBJECTIVE: Inequity in physician distribution poses a challenge to many health systems. In Japan, a new postgraduate training program for all new medical graduates was introduced in 2004, and researchers have argued that this program has increased inequalities in physician distribution. We examined...

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Main Authors: Rie Sakai, Wei Wang, Norihiro Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Tamura, Rei Goto, Ichiro Kawachi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3813669?pdf=render