Northfield Doctors Speak to Benefits of Family Medicine Residency, Struggles of Rural Employment

Greenfield Recorder

Aug 17, 2026

Highlights a rural-focused family medicine residency program in Massachusetts that aims to reduce the physician workforce shortage. Also notes contributors to the shortage including the cost of healthcare and affordable housing. Discusses the patient-physician relationship.

Graduate medical education · Health workforce supply and demand · Housing and homelessness · Physicians · Massachusetts