Rural Medical Education Guidebook

Medical Education and Rural Medical Relief

Rural Medical Education in New Zealand

Despite a large number of yearly medical graduates, rural New Zealand is faced with a scarcity of practicing physicians. Opportunities to learn and practice in rural settings start at the undergraduate level and extend to practicing physicians. There are a number of different programs available to facilitate rural medical education for all students and physicians. These programs will be discuss...

'Going rural': driving change through a rural medical education innovation.

INTRODUCTION Medical education across the globe is in a state of flux influenced by a number of drivers for change. In response, institutions are seeking to re-align their curricula to address the prevailing imperatives. Against this backdrop, the training of practitioners for practice in rural communities was identified as an educational priority, and led to the establishment of a rural clinic...

Rural medical education: five medical students spend a year in rural Port Lincoln, Australia.

CONTEXT The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia established the Spencer Gulf Rural Health School (SGRHS) as a joint venture to facilitate rural health professional education and research. Annually a cohort of medical students from the University of Adelaide volunteer and are placed in various SGRHS 'learning centres' throughout rural South Australia for the 5th year of ...

Environmerit: *Graduate Medical Education: Higher Education: *Medical Education: Physician Patient Relationship: Professional Continuing Education: Rural Areas: Teacher Effectiveness

The proceedings categorize 55 papers on research in medical education'in 12 sections: standards and standard setting (including equivalence-testing methods, standardized, examinations, and foreign exams) : predicting career outcomes (career choice and satisfacttion): teaching clinical skills (student-patient relations and interview skills): teachingin the clinical setting: continuing medical ed...