BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study describes characteristics and the evolution of the careers of graduates from a 1-year post-residency fellowship program whose primary objectives included clinical skills in Cesarean section. Besides obstetrical practice, rural service and attainment of faculty appointment were used as surrogate measures of fulfilling an underserved need for family medicine o...

A combination of "environmental factors" in the U.S. has led to an increased demand for health care professionals. However, there has been a significant decrease in the number of U.S. medical graduates selecting careers in family medicine and general internal medicine, thus driving demand for international medical graduates. At the heart of our national workforce policy needs to be good domesti...

Telemedicine has been used for over a generation, but application limited in rural areas by lack of payment, licensure issues, cumbersome video equipment, and challenges with digital communications. Early the COVID-19 pandemic, our family medicine residency made rapid shift to all telemedicine services patients.

This paper describes the development and characteristics of a comprehensive, integrated and sustained program for the education, recruitment and retention of physicians for rural practice in Alberta--the Rural Physician Action Plan. The participation of key stakeholders (including government, the provincial medical association, the licensing authority, faculties of medicine, practising rural ph...

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Department of Family medicine has been formed in academic year 2002/2003, few years later after the foundation of the School of Medicine University of Mostar. The formal members of department are professor and assistants who lecture and lead seminars. In addition, physicians in rural practices contribute to teaching of family medicine. Clinical teaching of family medicine at Mostar School of Me...

OBJECTIVE Health disparities exist between rural and urban areas. Rural physicians may lack sufficient medical knowledge, which may lead to poor quality of care. Therefore, we sought to determine whether medical knowledge differed between family physicians (FPs) practicing in rural areas compared with those practicing in metropolitan areas. METHODS We studied 8361 FPs who took the American Bo...

A few numbers Between 1996 and the present, there were increases in CFPC membership from 13 000 to 28 000; staff from 65 to 140; the annual operating budget from $10 million to $40 million; the number of first-year residents entering family medicine each year from 475 to 1300; the proportion of medical school graduates selecting family medicine as their first choice from a low of 23% in 2003 to...