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Allied health education in rural health professional shortage areas of the United States.

SEVERAL recent studies1,2have highlighted gross deficiencies in the health status of those living in rural areas of the United States, as well as inequities in the distribution of health resources in such areas. Concerns about an adequate supply of primary care physicians and allied health personnel3,4in rural areas have catalyzed federal and state governments to action, including reinvigoration of the National Health Service Corps,5development of a new Federal Office of Rural Health Policy,6and design and implementation of interdisciplinary training demonstration projects in rural communities.7 Allied health professionals form a vital part of the health care infrastructure necessary to support ambulatory and institutional primary care and to provide the full spectrum of basic health care; yet definitive quantitative studies relating allied health training location and subsequent rural practice choice do not exist. Even basic data on the number and distribution of allied