TY - JOUR T1 - Yonder: Medical schools, nocturnal pain, alopecia areata, and #bodypositive JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 443 LP - 443 DO - 10.3399/bjgp22X720653 VL - 72 IS - 722 AU - Ahmed Rashid Y1 - 2022/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/72/722/443.abstract N2 - Yonder: a diverse selection of primary care relevant research stories from beyond the mainstream biomedical literatureLike many other countries, the US faces a chronic shortage of primary care physicians that negatively impacts population health and contributes to rising healthcare costs. This prompted a research team from Michigan to conduct a scoping review to synthesise literature on institutional practices and interventions that support medical students’ choices of primary care specialties.1 They reviewed 8083 articles and identified 199 articles meeting inclusion criteria and 41 related articles. As a group, studies were of low quality, mostly used quantitative methodologies, rarely examined planning or piloting, and seldom looked at workforce outcomes. The … ER -