Within limitations of the study design, these findings support the proposition that the number of medical students produced in a county is related to the number of primary care physicians, which is related to life expectancy. Recommendations are to confirm the findings in other populations and inform public health policy concerning the utility of medical education to address population health by producing local medical students.
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