Rural health and Family Medicine

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

Family medicine practice in rural any-country.

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...

Curative Care Utilization under Family Medicine and Rural Insurance in Amol – Iran

Background and purpose: Reliable information about utilization of medical services is key for making appropriate decisions of all healthcare systems. Nonetheless, most policy decisions and planning in the rural areas of developing countries are made with the lack of such crucial information. In this article we attempt to reveal the pattern of curative care utilization of rural population in Amo...

Public health and family medicine: an opportunity.

The current national concern about bioterrorism and the inadequacy of the public health infrastructure offers an opportunity for American family physicians to assume a key role in the front line of the US public health system. To meet this challenge, family medicine educators need to insure that all family physicians are well trained to collaborate effectively with their local and state public ...