Using rural training tracks to encourage rural practice careers and enhance training in family medicine

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...

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

Family medicine practice in rural any-country.

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...

Determinants of rural practice: positive interaction between rural background and rural undergraduate training.

OBJECTIVE To determine the role of rural background and years of rural clinical school training on subsequent rural clinical practice. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective cohort study of University of Queensland (UQ) medical graduates who graduated during the period 2002-2011 (contacted via internet, telephone and mail, using information obtained from UQ, the Australian Health Prac...