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Brody School of Medicine boasts high percentage of primary care physician graduates

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University is topping the four state medical schools in the number of graduates continuing to practice primary care medicine. George Olsen has more.

A look at the percentage of medical school graduates practicing primary care medicine five years after their 2008 graduation shows 50 percent of Brody School of Medicine graduates were still in primary care. That ranks above the UNC-Chapel Hill med school’s 42 percent, Wake Forest University’s 35 percent and Duke University’s 19 percent. The report presented to the UNC Board of Governors also showed Brody with the highest percentage of graduates remaining  in state with 46 percent. The report did reveal difficulties in getting medical school graduates to practice in rural counties. Of 419 graduates at the four medical schools in 2008, only 16 were practicing in a rural county five years later. Nine of those came from the Brody School of Medicine. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.