BACKGROUND Family physicians provide care in emergency departments, especially in rural areas; however, no published data describe how they perceive their preparation for emergency practice. We surveyed graduates of Colorado family practice residencies concerning their emergency medicine practice, their comfort working in emergency departments, and their perceived preparation for practicing eme...

OBJECTIVE To examine where rural physicians grew up, when during their training they became interested in rural medicine, factors influencing their decision to practise rural medicine, and differences in these measures according to rural or urban upbringing. DESIGN Mailed survey. SETTING Rural Canada. PARTICIPANTS Rural family physicians who graduated between 1991 and 2000 from a Canadian...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The University of Louisville School of Medicine Trover Campus (ULTC) was established in rural west Kentucky in 1998 with the purpose of increasing the number of rural physicians. Utilizing the affinity model, a primary goal of the ULTC is to encourage rural students to pursue a medical education and return to rural Kentucky for practice. One aspect of this geographical...

There is a need to encourage careers in rural medicine and to prepare potential rural physicians for life in rural communities. The authors describe a program that addresses this need, the Appalachian Preceptorship Program, and report the program's experience from 1985 to 2004. The Appalachian Preceptorship is a four-week summer elective conducted by the Department of Family Medicine of East Te...

introduction: the family physician program has been implemented with the effort of the country's officials since 2005in the villages and towns with populations under 20,000 people to performe comfortable and convenient access to health services.the aim of this research was to  study knowledge and attitude of rural population toward the family physician program in rural regions of shahr-e kord. ...

Introduction Kansas has a regionalized trauma system with formal mechanisms for review, however, increased communication with rural providers can uncover opportunities for system process improvement. Therefore, this qualitative study explored perceptions of family medicine physicians staffing emergency departments (ED) in rural areas, specifically to determine what is going well and what areas ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study investigated factors related to declining interest in family medicine by US medical school graduates. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to all physicians who graduated from 24 medical schools in 1997-1999, and who entered a family medicine residency, and a randomly selected equal number of graduates from the same years who entered other primary care special...

State’s 66,511 square miles is rural. In 1994, there were 1.6 million women aged 10–49 in the state, and 17% of them lived in rural areas.5 The state has a long history of legal access to abortion, but the number of providers in rural Washington State has always been limited and has declined further in recent years. In 1983, only 10 of the state’s 28 rural counties had a provider; there were 19...