Innovation in Rural Family Medicine Training

Innovation in rural family medicine training: the Mountain Area Health Education Center's rural-track residency program.

Rural family medicine training in Canada.

OBJECTIVE To examine the status of postgraduate family medicine training that occurs in rural family practice settings in Canada and to identify problems and how they are addressed. DESIGN A retrospective questionnaire sent to all 18 Canadian family medicine training programs followed by a focus group discussion of results. SETTING Canadian university family medicine training programs. PA...

Family medicine training in China.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In 2010, six ministries of the Chinese government jointly issued a plan for building team-based primary care led by family physicians, prompting the creation of new models of family medicine training across the country. The purpose of this paper is to describe examples of existing family physician training models in China, to present advantages and disadvantages of the...

Feedback in family medicine training.

Feedback is key to developing the skills, behaviour, and competencies necessary for independent practice. However, soliciting and making good use of feedback can be challenging. In this article we outline the components of good feedback and offer tips to assist residents in making effective use of any feedback they receive (Figure 1). An easy-to-print handout containing this information is also...

Family Medicine Spokane Rural Training Track: 24 years of rural-based graduate medical education.

Twenty percent of the US population lives in rural communities, but only about 9% of the nation's physicians practice in those communities. There is little doubt that the more highly specialized physicians are, the less likely they are to practice or settle in rural areas. There is clearly a population threshold below which it is not feasible for specialist (in contrast to generalist) physician...